Between August 26 and September 25, Twitter in India received 157 complaints regarding things like harassment and offensive behavior, an 85% decrease over the prior month. In India, this is also the month with the fewest complains ever recorded.

Between August 26 and September 25, the microblogging website suspended nearly 54,000 accounts in India on the grounds that they had broken the platform’s rules.

For reasons including non-consensual nudity, child sexual exploitation, and other material, Twitter suspended 52,141 accounts. According to Twitter’s India Transparency Report, 1,982 more accounts were deleted for supporting terrorism.

The company claimed to have also received complaints over sensitive pornographic content, intellectual property infringement, and sexual assault. According to the report, the corporation handled a total of 43 grievance claims challenging account suspension.

Last month, Twitter removed nearly 60,200 accounts after receiving 1,088 complaints.

Every month, the social networking site—recently bought by billionaire businessman Elon Musk—releases statistics on the actions taken in response to reported content.

Musk has stated that the “social media firm will establish a content moderation council, and that any significant content determinations or account reinstatements would take place after such a group had met”.

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Users send messages known as “tweets” on Twitter, a microblogging and social networking platform owned by the American firm Twitter, Inc.

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