Countries With The Most Twitter Requests To Remove Content

Twitter, which had 13.6 million users in Turkey in January last year, is one of the 5 social media applications with the most users in Turkey. Every day, governments around the world are trying to control and monitor social media more and more. Twitter has become one of these channels.

Twitter, which is a medium where users express themselves mostly with words, is ‘governments’. Content that may be objectionable is also in the top ranks in terms of censorship, which brings with it the practice of ‘censorship’ on the platform. Twitter is free from governments, especially between January and June of 2021. record number of requests come and Requests from Turkey announced that it has increased significantly.

Turkey in the top 5

Twitter by governments for 2021’s first six months period, for the shares made from 196 thousand 878 accounts. 43 thousand 387 applications were made. These demands up to 95 percent from a total of five countries came. Among these countries, Japan has the highest demand, followed by Russia, Turkey, India and South Korea.

Twitter, the content in question not shown in some countries, some show some and some have been removed altogether. percentage of requests that they answered 54 of them explained. Since the platform first started releasing its reports first time He stated that they have received such a large number of requests from governments to remove such content.

About the subject Vice President of Public Policy at Twitter Sinead McSweeney “As governments around the world increasingly seek to interfere with and remove content, we face unprecedented challenges. This threat to privacy and freedom of expression is a worrying trend that demands our full attention.” said.