India fifth largest requestor for removal of content: Twitter

India was the fifth largest ‘requestor’ among countries for removing content on Twitter and Periscope based on local laws, according to microblogging platform Twitter’s latest transparency report. The report captures data between July -December 2019 on matters such as Twitter’s rules enforcement statistics, legal demands on content removal made by countries to the platform, copyright takedown notices, and account information requests received from government, law enforcement agencies and third parties by Twitter.

Twitter said it witnessed a 47% jump in global legal demands for content removal during the period under review compared to the last reporting period (January-June 2019).