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As part of its commitment to transparency, Twitter has published a report on content moderation and changes in the regulatory environment. Among other things, it reveals information about the number of requests for user data from world governments.

Twitter continues to review its approach to transparency reporting in light of innovations in content moderation and changes in the regulatory environment. In light of this, the company deems it important to share data from H1 2022 (January 1 – June 30, 2022) on its health & safety efforts.

Over the reporting period, Twitter required users to remove 6,586,109 pieces of content that violated the Twitter Rules, an increase of 29% from H2 2021. The company took enforcement action on 5,096,272 accounts during this period (a 20% increase), and 1,618,855 accounts were suspended for violating the Twitter Rules (a 28% increase).

Policy	Accounts actioned	Accounts suspended	Content removed
Abuse/Harassment	1,083,788	96,284	1,524,067
Child Sexual Exploitation	696,015	691,704	11,927
Hacked Materials	65	0	135
Hateful Conduct	1,085,651	111,056	1,527,442
Illegal or Certain Regulated Goods or Services	399,297	249,328	1,365,341
Impersonation	266,034	249,572	19,798
Misleading and Deceptive Identities	2	0	2
Non-Consensual Nudity	68,714	16,670	115,226
Perpetrators of Violent Attacks	381	0	1,578
Private Information	45,844	2,536	78,357
Promoting Suicide or Self Harm	439,555	11,776	547,377
Sensitive Media	1,315,670	150,757	1,352,155
Terrorism/Violent Extremism	30,616	30,616	0
Violence	28,753	19,838	35,240

The company said that, around the world, Twitter received approximately 53,000 legal requests to remove content from governments during the reporting period. Twitter’s compliance rate for these requests varied by requester country. The top requesting countries were Japan, South Korea, Turkey, and India.

Twitter also received over 16,000 government information requests for user data from over 85 countries during the reporting period. Disclosure rates vary by requester country. The top five requesting countries seeking account information in H1 2022 were India, the United States, France, Japan, and Germany. Twitter said it intends to share more about its path forward for transparency reporting later this year.

Article edited by @SmokeyShorts; follow him on Twitter