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Twitter: governments made 43,387 content removal demands from a record 196,878 accounts in H1 2021; 95% came from Japan, Russia, Turkey, India, and South Korea

Twitter permanently suspended 453,754 unique accounts for violations of its child sexual exploitation policy — Twitter suspended 44,974 unique accounts for promotion of terrorism and violent organizations https://blog.twitter.com/... @policy : Transparency enables accountability for companies and governments. Without transparency, this isn't possible. Today's update to The Twitter Transparency Center is key to this shared accountability as we work to grow trust with the people who count on us. https://blog.twitter.com/... @twittersafety : You should feel safe & in control of your experience on Twitter, while being able to trust the content you see, and there's no trust without transparency. Here's an update to our Transparency Center spelling out how we've been enforcing our rules: https://blog.twitter.com/... Caitlin Rush / @crush : Trust between advertisers and media partners is more important than ever, and meaningful transparency is critical to building this trust. Excited to share the latest Twitter Transparency Center update, with data from Jan 1 to Jun 30, 2021. https://blog.twitter.com/... Lauren Culbertson / @lculbs : Since 2012, we've been sharing data about demands placed on us by governments around the world and have expanded it in recent years to include data around enforcement of the Twitter Rules. See our latest update. 👇 https://blog.twitter.com/... @evelyndouek : “In terms of legal demands from governments ... this is the largest number of accounts ever subject to removal requests in a reporting period since releasing our first transparency report in 2012.” https://blog.twitter.com/... Elizabeth Culliford / @eculliford : NEW: Twitter said governments around the world made requests to remove content from a record number of user accounts in Jan-June 2021 🗺️It said 95% percent of these legal demands came from five countries: Japan, Russia, Turkey, India, and South Korea https://www.reuters.com/... Trenton Kennedy / @trentonjkennedy : “We're facing unprecedented challenges as governments around the world increasingly attempt to intervene and remove content. This threat to privacy and freedom of expression is a deeply worrying trend that requires our full attention.” — @smcs https://www.reuters.com/... Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis : “Twitter said governments around the world made requests to remove content from a record number of user accounts between January and June last year, in data to be released by the social media company on Tuesday.” https://www.reuters.com/...

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  • Twitter Twitter on x
    An Update to the Twitter Transparency Center
  • @donie @donie on x
    In the first six months of 2021: — Twitter permanently suspended 453,754 unique accounts for violations of its child sexual exploitation policy — Twitter suspended 44,974 unique accounts for promotion of terrorism and violent organizations https://blog.twitter.com/...
  • @policy @policy on x
    Transparency enables accountability for companies and governments. Without transparency, this isn't possible. Today's update to The Twitter Transparency Center is key to this shared accountability as we work to grow trust with the people who count on us. https://blog.twitter.com/…
  • @twittersafety @twittersafety on x
    You should feel safe & in control of your experience on Twitter, while being able to trust the content you see, and there's no trust without transparency. Here's an update to our Transparency Center spelling out how we've been enforcing our rules: https://blog.twitter.com/...
  • @crush Caitlin Rush on x
    Trust between advertisers and media partners is more important than ever, and meaningful transparency is critical to building this trust. Excited to share the latest Twitter Transparency Center update, with data from Jan 1 to Jun 30, 2021. https://blog.twitter.com/...
  • @lculbs Lauren Culbertson on x
    Since 2012, we've been sharing data about demands placed on us by governments around the world and have expanded it in recent years to include data around enforcement of the Twitter Rules. See our latest update. 👇 https://blog.twitter.com/...
  • @evelyndouek @evelyndouek on x
    “In terms of legal demands from governments ... this is the largest number of accounts ever subject to removal requests in a reporting period since releasing our first transparency report in 2012.” https://blog.twitter.com/...
  • @eculliford Elizabeth Culliford on x
    NEW: Twitter said governments around the world made requests to remove content from a record number of user accounts in Jan-June 2021 🗺️It said 95% percent of these legal demands came from five countries: Japan, Russia, Turkey, India, and South Korea https://www.reuters.com/...
  • @trentonjkennedy Trenton Kennedy on x
    “We're facing unprecedented challenges as governments around the world increasingly attempt to intervene and remove content. This threat to privacy and freedom of expression is a deeply worrying trend that requires our full attention.” — @smcs https://www.reuters.com/...
  • @rasmus_kleis Rasmus Kleis Nielsen on x
    “Twitter said governments around the world made requests to remove content from a record number of user accounts between January and June last year, in data to be released by the social media company on Tuesday.” https://www.reuters.com/...