In India last month Elon’s Musk X banned over 1.8 lakh accounts, amid privacy violations .

Elon Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter) has said that it banned 184,241 accounts in India between March 26 and April 25. The micro-blogging platform also took down 1,303 accounts in the country between the same period.

X Total banned 185,544 accounts in the reporting period.

Some handles have been banned for promoting terrorism on its platform in the country, it said in its monthly report in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021

The microblogging platform said that it received 18,562 complaints from users in India in the same time frame through its grievance redressal mechanisms.

X processed 118 grievances which were appealing account suspensions.

Most complaints from India were about ban evasion (7,555), followed by hateful conduct (3,353), sensitive adult content (3,335), and abuse/harassment (2,402).

In last report, X banned 2,12,627 accounts in the country (between February 26 and March 25). The microblogging platform also took down 1,235 accounts for promoting terrorism on its platform.

Recently, Musk announced that users can now limit replies only to verified users to avoid spam and bots.