Facebook says restricted 878 items in India from July-Dec 2020 on govt request

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Facebook says restricted 878 items in India from July-Dec 2020 on govt request



New Delhi: Facebook Inc. received 37,865 legal process requests on data from the Indian government between July and December 2020, according to its latest transparency report released on Thursday. It also received requests for data from the government on 62,754 user accounts and there were about 2435 emergency disclosure requests. Data was produced in about 52% of the requests, Facebook said.

The company said it restricted access in India to 878 items in response to directions from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology for violating Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, including content against security of the state and public order. Of these, 10 were restricted temporarily.

Compared to India, Facebook received 57,905 legal process requests from the US government and requests for information on around 102,271 accounts. Facebook said it produced data on 89% of the requests. From the UK, the company received 8241 legal process requests on data and information on 12,753 users/accounts. It produced data in about 88% of the requests.

While also releasing its community standards enforcement report for the first quarter of this year, Facebook said the prevalence of hate speech on Facebook continues to decrease. In quarter one, it was 0.05-0.06%, or 5 to 6 views per 10,000 views compared to 0.07%-0.08% between October to December last year.

Facebook took action on 25.2 million pieces of hate speech content, compared to 26.9 million in Q4 2020. On Instagram it took action on 6.3 million pieces of hate speech content, compared to 6.6 million in Q4 2020.

The company said in Q1 2021, the prevalence of adult nudity on both Facebook and Instagram was 0.03-0.04%. Violent and graphic content prevalence was 0.01-0.02% on Instagram. On Facebook, it was 0.03-0.04%, down from .05% last quarter.

In a post, Guy Rosen, VP, integrity at Facebook wrote that due to improvements in its 'proactive detection technology', Facebook took action on 8.8 million pieces of bullying and harassment content, up from 6.3 million in Q4 2020 and 5.5 million pieces of bullying and harassment content, up from 5 million in Q4 2020.

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