Twitter said governments around the world made requests to remove content from a record number of user accounts between January and June last year, with the most coming from Japan, in data to be released by the social media company on Tuesday.
The platform said governments made 43,387 legal demands for the removal of content from 196,878 accounts in the six-month period, according to data in its latest transparency report.
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