The Indian government made over 70 thousand requests for content removal from Facebook between January and June 2023. This was the highest number of requests recorded since 2013. A majority of these were legal process requests. Over 68 percent of the requests made that year were complied with by the platform to some extent.
Number of government and court requests for content removal from Facebook India from 1st half of 2016 to 1st half of 2023
(in 1000s)
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