Governments Increase Demands for Twitter to Remove Content

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. The platform said governments made 43,387 legal demands for the removal of content from 196,878 accounts in the six-month period, according to data in its latest transparency report seen by Reuters.

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