Last Update: April 26, 2023, 03:28 AM IST
Last week, Musk removed all legacy verified accounts with blue check marks.
Earlier, Musk bought Twitter in October and cut about 80 percent of its employees.
Twitter said on Tuesday it required users to remove more than 6.5 million pieces of content in the first half of 2022, a 29 percent increase from the second half of 2021 before the social media platform was taken over by billionaire Elon Musk. .
Twitter revealed the number of content removals in a blog post on the same day the European Union said the social media platform would be among 19 tech companies subject to new landmark rules requiring them to share data with authorities. Need to do, deal with misinformation and conduct. External and independent audit.
According to the European Commission’s website, failure to comply with the rules – some of the world’s strictest on online platforms – could lead to fines of up to 6 percent of global revenue or even a ban from operating in the EU.
Before Musk bought Twitter in October and cut about 80 percent of its staff, Twitter normally published a twice-annual report on its Transparency Center website, detailing information such as the accounts it suspended. and the number of government requests for data received.
Twitter’s update on Tuesday came in the form of a short blog post, and the company said it would deliver an update later this year about “the way forward for transparency reporting.”
Publishing transparency reports is a requirement under new EU Internet regulations.
The company said it received 53,000 legal requests from governments to remove certain content during the first half of 2022, with Japan, South Korea, Turkey and India submitting the most requests.
Twitter did not disclose the number of requests it complied with.
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