These transparency reports detail the number of content removal requests the companies receive from courts and government agencies across the world. With 70,815 requests, Facebook is where the vast majority of the Indian government’s content removal requests go (91.23pc of the country’s total of 77,620). What kind of content removal requests is Twitter receiving? The biggest jump in Twitter content removal requests came in 2013 when there were 435 removal requests (an 806 per cent increase on 2012’s 48 requests). However, the largest number of content removal requests came last year with 23,464 (an 84% increase in the previous year).

Source: Pakistan Today October 01, 2019 16:52 UTC