Twitter Removes More Than 6.5 Million Content In The First Semester Of 2022 Before Purchasing By Elon Musk

Twitter announced that the social media platform asked users to remove more than 6.5 million content. (photo: dock. pexels)

JAKARTA - Twitter announced that the social media platform asked users to remove more than 6.5 million content during the first half of 2022, before the new platform owner, billionaire Elon Musk, took over. That figure is an increase of 29% of the amount of content removed in the second half of 2021.

Twitter announced the amount of removal of the content in a blog post on the same day the European Union said the social media platform would be one of 19 technology companies that would comply with new rules requiring them to share data with authorities, do more to deal with disinformation, and conduct external and independent audits.

Failure to comply with such rules - some of the world's strictest rules for online platforms - could result in fines of up to 6% of global revenue or even a ban on operating in the European Union, according to the European Commission's website.

Before Musk bought Twitter in October and cut about 80% of his staff, Twitter usually publishes reports every six months on its Transparency Center site, detailing information such as suspended account counts and the number of government requests received for data.

Twitter updates on Tuesday came in the form of a short blog post, and the company said it would provide updates on its "way forward for their transparency reporting" later this year.

Publishing transparency reports is one of the requirements under the new EU internet rules. The company said it received 53,000 lawsuits from the government during the first half of 2022 to remove certain content, with Japan, South Korea, Turkey, and India submitting the most requests.

Twitter did not disclose the number of requests they met.