Suspended over 22,500 accounts: Twitter in 1st compliance report

Micro-blogging platform Twitter filed its first grievance redressal report as required under under India’s new IT norms, wherein the company said that it has suspended 22,564 accounts for child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity and promotion of terrorism.

It also said that it has acted against 133 posts over several reasons including harassment and privacy infringement.

The data pertains to the period of May 26, 2021 to June 25, 2021 that included content on Twitter. This includes complaints received from individual users with accompanying court orders, it said.

“We receive complaints in our Grievance Officer – India channel that relate to account verification, account access, or seeking assistance or information regarding an account or Twitter’s enforcement actions that are not included in the data below. The majority of complaints received in this channel during this reporting period fell into these categories,” the report said.

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