Twitter, in its monthly report in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021, said that it received 518 complaints from users in India in the same time-frame through its grievance redressal mechanisms.
Google received a record 37,173 user complaints in July this year in India (up more than 13.6 per cent from June), in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021, while the company removed 6,89,457 pieces of harmful content in the country in the same period.
In its first monthly grievance redressal report, WhatsApp had banned 20 lakh accounts in India that attempted to send harmful or unwanted messages at scale.
The service, in its first compliance report, said 95% of these users were blocked for violating the limits of the number of times messages can be forwarded in India.
Twitter said though it is striving to comply with the 2021 Rules, it "reserves its right to challenge the legality, validity, and vires of the Rules,
The Centre submitted that Twitter India is in clear violation of IT Rules,2021 according to which the microblogging platform has to appoint a chief compliance officer.
