Twitter has banned a record 25,51,623 accounts in India between March 26 and April 25, for promoting child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity, the company said in its monthly report.
The microblogging platform added that it also took down 2,249 accounts for promoting terrorism on Twitter in the country. This means that in total, Twitter banned 25,53,881 accounts in India in the reporting period.
In its monthly report, the company noted that it received 158 complaints from users in India through its grievance redressal mechanisms during the March-April month timeframe.
Under the new IT Rules 2021, big digital and social media platforms that have more than 5 million users have to publish monthly compliance reports.
“We overturned three of these account suspensions after reviewing the specifics of the situation. The remaining reported accounts remain suspended,” said the company.
Twitter said it processed four grievances which were appealing account suspensions.
“We did not receive any requests related to general questions about Twitter accounts during this reporting period,” it added.
What were the complaints about
According to Twitter, most complaints received in India were about abuse/harassment (83), followed by sensitive adult content (41), hateful conduct (19) and defamation (12).
According to a separate report, Twitter approved 83% of government requests to either restrict or block content globally, including in India. Since Musk’s takeover in October 2022, the micro-blogging platform has received 971 requests from governments, said a report in a Spanish publication El Pais.
A report recently indicated that the social media platform is now worth only one-third of what Elon Musk paid for it. Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion in October of last year. Earlier this year, he revealed that the value of Twitter is less than half of what he initially paid for it.
Fidelity, the investment firm which was part of the investors that aided Musk in funding the Twitter acquisition, said that Twitter is currently valued at $15 billion, which is 33% of its purchase price in October.
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