U.S. government reasons for content removal requests from Google H1 2021

Published by
Tiago Bianchi,
Dec 2, 2022
Defamation was the most popular reason for U.S. government or court entities to request content removal from Google in the first half of 2021, accounting for approximately 45 percent of requests during the reporting period. The second-most requested reason for removal of content was due to trademark.

Reasons for removal of content from Google provided by government or court entities in the United States during 1st half of 2021

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Release date

March 2022

Region

United States

Survey time period

January to June 2021

Supplementary notes

* unspecified, hate speech, and national security received one removal request each

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