| Country | Court orders | Requests from government agencies or law enforcement | Number of sites specified | Percentage of requests where content was removed due to a violation of our policies | Percentage of requests where content was removed solely in response to the demand |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 5 | 5 | 5 | 100% | 0% |
| Russia | 0 | 80 | 65 | 85% | 2.5% |
| Republic of Korea | 0 | 29 | 1599 | 100% | 0% |
| Malaysia | 0 | 93 | 267 | 100% | 0% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 2 | 4 | 50% | 0% |
| Brazil | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 0% |
| Germany | 0 | 2 | 2 | 100% | 0% |
| Taiwan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 0% |
| Italy | 0 | 1 | 354 | 0% | 0% |
| France | 0 | 1 | 2 | 100% | 0% |
| Total | 6 | 215 | 2,297 | 93.5% | 0.9% |
| Country | Total | Harm to minors | Sites specified | Removed due to demand | Removed for violation of policy | Court orders |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| France | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0% | 100% | 0 |
| Germany | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0% | 100% | 0 |
| Italy | 1 | 1 | 258 | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| Total | 4 | 1 | 262 | 0% | 75% | 0 |
Notes
- With regards to Takedown Demands Received from EU Member States, the data provided is according to the requirements of the DSA, Article 15, “Transparency reporting obligations for providers of intermediary services.”
- The information provided is for the total number of takedown requests per country, broken down by type of reported content at issue.
- The table also provides the percentage of the total amount of orders where we complied and the percentage of orders resulted in action taken due to a violation of our guidelines.
- We are also reporting the median time (in hours) that it took to confirm receipt and take action on reported content.
Recent Examples
Here are a few recent examples of takedown requests that we received from government sources.
Malaysia
- Most Malaysian Government requests target content that violates our Terms of Service under harassment. These sites are often blogs related to unwanted sexualization.
Korea
- The majority of Government requests coming from Korea address spam sites and other illegal activities in the country, such as drug sales or prostitution/escort services.
Italy
- Unlike previous reports we received in the past from Italian authorities, our sole report this period consisted of a large number of unique pieces of content, perhaps marking a change in the reporting manner we have seen so far.
Transparency Report 