Pakistani authorities sought shutdown of more than 3,000 twitter accounts in the first six months of 2019 for offences such as spreading hate material and inciting violence.
Pakistani authorities sought shutdown of more than 3,000 twitter accounts in the first six months of 2019 for offences such as spreading hate material and inciting violence.
After Turkey and Russia, Pakistan has the highest number of accounts specified for the given period.
Twitter received legal demands specifying 27,811 accounts from 38 different countries, including Oman and Panama, which appeared for the first time.
“We first review all reported content in each demand for TOS violations, which resulted in some content being removed from Twitter on 7,808 accounts,” the platform said.
Twitter also suspended a total of 205,156 accounts for promotion of terrorism during the period under review.
between July and December, and 674 accounts were reported to Twitter.
