TWITTER said it had required users to take down more than 6.5 million pieces of content that violated its rules in the first half of 2022, which is a 29 percent increase from the previous six months.
In its latest Transparency report posted on its blog, Twitter also said it also took enforcement action on more than 5 million accounts, and suspended more than 1.6 million accounts for violating Twitter rules
Most of the content that the microblogging site ordered removed consisted of hateful conduct, which had the highest number. This was followed by content containing abuse or harassment, illegal or certain regulated goods and services, sensitive media, and promoting suicide or self-harm.
It also asked users to remove content with non-consensual nudity and child sexual exploitation.
Earlier, republicasia came up with a series of reports sounding the alarm on the proliferation of sexual content online, including those that abuse and exploit children.
Meanwhile, Twitter said that during the reporting period, it received some 53,000 legal requests from governments to remove content. Japan, South Korea, Turkey and India had the most number of requests.
It also received more than 16,000 government information requests for user data from over 85 countries. The top countries that sought account information were India, the United States, France, Japan, and Germany.
Compliance and response varied by county.
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In its report, Twitter said it would not publishing a transparency report for the first half of 2022 in its previous format.
It also said it intends to “ share more about our path forward for transparency reporting later this year.”
Meanwhile, CEO Elon Musk said that Twitter is “rapidly improving transparency & fairness on this platform, but there is still a lot of work to do.”
