In its monthly compliance report titled X’s India Transparency Report: User Grievances & Proactive Monitoring April 2024, X/Twitter has suspended a huge cache of accounts from its platform for several policy violations. The report is generated in a bid to ensure transparency by adhering to local laws and regulations.
Elon Musk-owned X bans over 212,000 accounts in India between February 26 and March 25 this year for policy violations. https://t.co/4IMFD5pd94#Elon_Musk #Accountban— Business Standard (@bsindia) April 15, 2024
Per the report, globally, 2,12,627 accounts have been suspended for proliferating child sexual exploitation and similar content and 1,235 accounts were axed for promoting terrorism. Any child exploitation content found on X is removed and the report is shared with the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), that further relays the information to relevant law authorities around the globe to facilitate investigations and thereby prosecution.
Meanwhile, in India, acting upon the report of the local grievance officer, the platform acted on several grievances, which also included complaints against individual users accompanying court orders. Between February 26 and March 25, 2024, X/Twitter acted upon 134 URLs out of 349 complaints of abuse and harassment. Out of 183 complaints received over child exploitation content in India, the app acted over 103. One out of two defamation related actions was executed. Out of 45 complaints on impersonation, 4 URLs were suspended. 1 out of 8 URL promoting self harm or suicide was withheld. Meanwhile 2,626 URLs were acted upon for sensitive adult content, while there were only 953 grievances for the same.
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