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Exhibit 1150

X Global Transparency Report, H1 2024

Exhibit 1150 ยท Platform transparency report

X Global Transparency Report, H1 2024

X's first global transparency report published after the 2022 acquisition, per press coverage. Its government removal table gives 72,703 removal requests worldwide with 51,487 actioned (70.82%): Turkey 9,364 (6,332 actioned), Japan 46,648 (36,731), South Korea 5,889 (4,296), the EU 2,458 (1,965) and 'All Others' 8,345 (2,163); the United States is not listed separately in the removal table and falls within 'All Others'. The same report lists 3,329 U.S. information requests with a 76% disclosure rate. Its enforcement section gives 224,129,805 user reports, 5,296,870 account suspensions and 10,675,980 posts removed or labeled in the half (policy categories: abuse, child safety, hateful conduct, violent content and others; none labeled misinformation).

Source
X Corp.
Date
September 2024 (covers January to June 2024)
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://transparency.x.com/content/dam/transparency-twitter/2024/x-global-transparency-report-h1.pdf
Accessed
2026-11-10
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Findings citing this exhibit
Note
SHA-256 of the PDF as downloaded: ff3ef346ea5e5330170e35f0ed861232d0f16a83fc7d67d4081d8d7546bd7419. The government table counts requests under X's legal-demand process; the enforcement totals count X's own rule enforcement. The two are different units and are not ratios of each other.

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Finding INF-4.6
Primary record Google's U.S. table lists 717 court and government requests naming 6,991 items in 2021, mostly for defamation, trademark and privacy, with no misinformation category. Meta's report excludes government reports handled under its Community Standards and lists 3 U.S. items for the first half of 2021 and 21 for the second, and X's report for January to June 2024 has no separate U.S. line in its removal table.
Finding INF-4.7
Open question No public dataset states how many government reports to platforms from 2017 to 2024 led to removal, by agency, platform and administration. The only figure in the record is the FBI agent's recollection of about half.