Of these, 19 items were restricted only temporarily (during the designated blackout period) in the country. "We also restricted access to 71 items due to other court orders, to 13 items for IP infringement, and to two items in response to private reports of defamation," said the company. With the Centre coming out with the new IT Rules, 2021 to hold social media platforms more accountable, Meta said it took down over 30.7 million pieces of bad content across 13 policies for Facebook and over 3 million pieces of such content across 12 policies for Instagram in India in September. The US continues to submit the largest number of requests with 69,363 requests. When it came to Internet disruptions, India saw the highest number of Internet disruptions totaling 18 in all. Sudan came second with 15 Internet disruptions.