Elon Musk’s X Bans Over 2 Lakh Accounts In India For Promoting Explicit Content – News18

Elon Musk-run X Corp banned a report 2,31,215 accounts in India between December 26 and January 25, principally for selling little one sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity.

The micro-blogging platform, going via a churning below Musk, additionally took down 1,945 accounts for selling terrorism on its platform within the nation.

In complete, X banned 2,33,160 accounts within the reporting interval within the nation. X, in its month-to-month report in compliance with the brand new IT Rules, 2021, stated that it obtained 2,525 complaints from customers in India in the identical timeframe via its grievance redressal mechanisms.

In addition, X processed 40 grievances which have been interesting account suspensions.

“We overturned 9 of these account suspensions after reviewing the specifics of the situation. The remaining reported accounts remain suspended,” stated the corporate.

“We received 19 requests related to general questions about accounts during this reporting period,” it added.

Most complaints from India have been about ban evasion (967), adopted by abuse/harassment (684), delicate grownup content material (363), and hateful conduct (313).

Between November 26 and December 25, X banned 2,27,600 accounts in India.

The micro-blogging platform additionally took down 2,032 accounts for selling terrorism on its platform within the nation.

Meanwhile, a brand new report from the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) has stated that X is offering premium, paid companies to accounts for 2 leaders of a US-designated terrorist group and a number of other different organisations sanctioned by the federal government.

The report recognized over a dozen X accounts for US-sanctioned entities that had a blue checkmark, which requires the acquisition of a premium subscription.

(This story has been edited by News18 employees and is revealed from a syndicated news company feed – IANS)