“India's 17,338 Legal demands between 2012 and 2021 account for 7% of the global legal demands (amounting) to 225,076 worldwide,” an intern...

The media operates on self-censorship, and the law steps in only when this fails. It also looks into bias masquerading as self-censorship. ...

The US-based microblogging site revealed this in a report to Lumen Database, a repository of legal complaints and requests for removal of o...

The Canada-based filmmaker has been in embroiled in a controversy after a poster of her film depicted Indian Goddess Kali smoking a cigaret...

The legal move follows the expiry of the July 4 deadline requiring the American microblogging platform to comply with directives issued by ...

It is learnt that while the platforms claimed to have taken down over 8 million videos on various counts from copyright violation to child ...

The officials, from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B), strongly criticised the companies and said their inaction on fake n...

India is the third largest market in terms of users for Twitter with 18.8 million users in India, after the US and Japan, as of April, acco...

Facebook’s compliance report will contain information on content takedown requests it received from the government and users in India, and ...

Twitter and other social media platforms have taken down around 100 posts and URLs after the government asked them to remove content that w...

Twitter and the other companies said the solution should be broader than just removing content since it could have a negative impact on fre...

At present, when a platform receives a takedown order in India, it blocks that particular piece of content geographically. This means the c...

India is followed by Russia and Turkey in content removal requests, according to Comparitech, which collated data from the transparency rep...

Cos refuse to share info with RTI applicants on social media use during polls; EC to take final call.

Abiding by voluntary code of conduct, Facebook and Twitter remove ‘indecent’ and ‘violent’ content.

Twitter received 408 court orders and 310 requests from government authorities to remove content 'based on violations of personal rights an...

Between July 2012 and June 2014, Wikipedia received a total of 56 requests for user data and 304 requests for content alteration and take d...