Russia has come out on top of a ranking of government requests to have online content removed or blocked, according to Google’s latest Transparency Report.
Last year, the Russian authorities filed more than 13,000 requests with the search engine to have online content on Google platforms removed, including on YouTube. Compared to 2015, the number of requests from the Russian authorities increased by 478 percent. Most were received in the second half of 2016, the report shows.
