- Friday, April 26, 2024
By: Shubham Ghosh
SEARCH engine giant Google removed more than 71,000 pieces of content in May and followed it up with 83,000-plus removal actions the following month over user complaints, according to its monthly transparency reports released on Friday (30).
Besides the reports from users, Google also removed 634,357 pieces of content in May and 526,866 in June following automatic detection. The American firm made these disclosures as part of compliance with the new information technology rules that came into force in May end.
In its maiden report, Google revealed that it had received more than 27,700 complaints in April from individual users in India over alleged violation of local news or personal rights, which resulted in the removal of nearly 60,000 content pieces.
In its report for the month of May, Google said it had received 34,883 complaints from individual users located in India through designated mechanisms and the number of removal actions as a result of user complaints was over 71,000.
The complaints related to third-party content that is believed to violate local laws or personal rights on Google’s significant social media intermediary (SSMI) platforms, it said.
The removal of the content was done under various categories, including copyright (70,365), defamation (753), counterfeit (5), other legal (4), circumvention (3) and graphic sexual content (2).
Talking about automated detection, the internet giant said it invests heavily in fighting harmful content online and uses technology to detect and remove it from its platforms (including YouTube).
“This includes using automated detection processes for some of our products to prevent the dissemination of harmful content such as child sexual abuse material and violent extremist content. Automated detection enables us to act more quickly and accurately to enforce our guidelines and policies,” it added.
