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India is no. 1 in asking to remove tweets of journalists: Twitter

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New Delhi: India made the highest number of legal demands globally to remove content posted by verified journalists and news outlets on Twitter from July-December 2021, the microblogging platform said in its latest transparency report.

Twitter said 349 accounts of verified journalists and news outlets located around the world were subject to 326 legal demands to remove content, a 103 percent increase in the number of accounts since the previous period (January-June 2021).

The microblogging platform added that India was only behind the US in seeking Twitter account information, accounting for 19 percent of global information requests.

It was among the top five countries to issue content-blocking orders to Twitter from July-December 2021 for all kinds of users.

"This spike is largely attributed to legal demands submitted by India (114), Turkey (78), Russia (55), and Pakistan (48)," it said.

In that time frame, India had made 89 of the total 231 such demands the platform received globally.

Twitter said 'legal demands' include a combination of court orders and other formal demands to remove content, from both governmental entities and lawyers representing individuals.

Without giving details, 17 tweets from verified journalists and news outlets globally were withheld during the second half of 2021 as compared to 11 tweets withheld during January-June.

Twitter said it received a legal demand from the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights in India to remove content relating to privacy issues involving a minor.

While Twitter did not name anyone, the reference was to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's tweet of August last year when he shared a picture of the parents of a minor Dalit girl who was allegedly raped.

"The reported tweet published by a high-ranking political figure was withheld in India in compliance with the Indian law," it said.

Twitter also received the second highest number of government legal requests for providing account information of users from India, after the US.

"The United States submitted the most government information requests during this reporting period, accounting for 20 percent of the global volume, and 39 percent of the global accounts specified.

"The second highest volume of requests originated from India, comprising 19 percent of global information requests and 27 percent of the global accounts specified," it said.

Japan, France, and Germany were the other three nations in the top five countries by volume.

"Twitter received 63 (+3 percent) more routine requests from India, while the number of routine accounts specified increased by 205 (+3 percent) during this reporting period for a total of 2,211 requests for 7,768 accounts," the report said.

Globally, Twitter received 11,460 requests.

Giving details of legal demands made from India, Twitter said a total of 3,992, or 8 percent of 47,572 worldwide, requests to remove content from its platform were made from July-December 2021. These included 23 court orders and 3,969 other legal demands.

During this period, Twitter withheld 88 accounts and 303 tweets in India.

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