Transparency report

A Transparency report was published in Guardian

A new Europol report aims to draw a picture of the status of access of European Union (EU) Member States to electronic evidence held by foreign-based online service providers in 2018.

Since the beginning of the year, Facebook deleted 5.4 billion fake accounts, the company announced.

"We have improved our ability to detect and block attempts to create fake, abusive accounts," the internet firm said in its latest transparency report.

From January 2015 to June 2017, the government of Serbia has requested information about Twitter 40 users, the US company's transparency report shows.

The report was carried by the Center for Investigative Reporting of Serbia (CINS) on its website, the agency Beta said on Monday.

The U.S. technology giant said it received between 13,250 and 13,499 requests affecting between 9,000 and 9,249 accounts, according to its transparency report. Apple is not allowed to disclose the specific numbers of requests received so has to do so in a range.

Turkey is the most active country in seeking the removal of content on Twitter, accounting for nearly half of all requests worldwide, according to a biannual transparency report by the company.

Last year the Russian authorities have made more inquiries to Google to remove "illegal" information on the net than all other countries in the world put together. This is the regular Transparency Report published by the technology giant every year, quoted by the BBC.

Turkey remains top of Twitter's global censorship list, according to the latest Twitter Transparency report published on March 21.

According to the report, Turkey issued requests to the social media company to shut down 3,076 accounts. 

Twitter issues a transparency report every six months to record the amount of government requests it receives during that period, and how the company responds to them. For the first six months of 2015 Turkey leads the rest of the world with the most requests to twitter for censorship. Over 70 per cent of government takedowns came from Turkish authorities in 2015.

Turkey is second in the world in terms of the amount of content restricted on Facebook due to government requests, following India, according to the social media site's Global Government Requests Report, which includes information about content removal.

A slight increase in government requests for account data in the second half of 2014 was recorded, the report also said.