SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter has released its “Transparency Report” which shows that it suspended 376,890 accounts in the second half of 2016 (July-December) for “promotion of terrorism” an increase of 60 per cent from the first half of 2016, reports foreign media.
The latest suspensions make the total number of blocked
accounts to 636,248 from August 2015 when
Twitter put constraints to deal with “violent extremism”.
It states: “The
removal requests we receive are generally regarding content that may be illegal in a specific jurisdiction. Governments (including law-enforcement agencies), organizations chartered to combat discrimination, and lawyers representing individuals are among the many complainants we receive
requests from.”
Twitter, however, did **t grant any of the
requests made by the Pakistan government. According to the
Twitter Transparency report, Pakistan made four total account information
requests between July and December last year, compared to six
requests made during the first half of 2016.
Although the number of
requests made was lower, the number of
accounts specified in the
requests had increased from 22 in the first half of 2016 to 38 in the second half.
Pakistan also made 13
requests to
Twitter for the
removal of 19
accounts between July and December last year, compared to eight
removal requests for 32
accounts in the first half of 2016.
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