Turkey Submits Highest Volume of Removal Requests to Twitter

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Twitter has issued its first biannual Transparency Report for 2016, according to which Turkey has submitted the highest volume of removal requests to Twitter.

*Twitter has received 761 court orders to remove content. 712 of these originated from Turkey.

*Twitter has received 4,434 removal requests from government agencies, police and other authorities. Turkey has submitted the highest volume of removal requests, 781.

*Twitter has withheld 240 accounts, 221 of which were with withheld on Turkey’s demand. 1,571 of the 2,599 withheld Tweets were censored on Turkey’s demand.

* In the category of user account “information requests,” the US was ranked first with 2,520 of 5,676  requests, followed by Japan, the UK and France. Turkey was listed in fifth place.  

*Twitter has provided information in response to 82% of the US’s and none of Turkey’s account information requests.

Click here to read the original report (EA/DG)