Between July and December 2021, government agencies, police and courts of a multitude of countries submitted over 47 thousand content removal requests to the microblogging platform Twitter. Overall, This was the largest number of requests reported since the platform's first transparency report was released in 2012.
Number of data removal requests issued to Twitter from 1st half 2012 to 2nd half 2021
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