India sent most takedown requests to social media companies: Research

BENGALURU: Technology companies Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and open encyclopedia Wikimedia, have received the most content takedown requests from India, said UK-based technology research firm Comparitech.

India is followed by Russia and Turkey in content removal requests, according to Comparitech, which collated data from the transparency reports of top internet companies till date.

The governments of India and Russia each accounted for almost 20% of the overall number of removal requests. The total number of requests sent by various countries to internet firms stood at 390,764 so far.