Twitter bans 43,140 accounts of Indian users

Twitter banned 43,140 accounts of Indian users in June over violation of its guidelines, the microblogging platform said in its July 2022 compliance report.

According to the report, Twitter removed 40,982 accounts for child sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity, and similar content, while 2,158 accounts were banned for promoting terrorism. The platform received 724 grievances in India though its local grievance mechanism between May 26, 2022 and June 25, 2022 and total number of URLs actioned was 122.