Today, we’re able to speak openly about two national security requests for the first time, specifically two national security letters (NSLs). These NSLs were accompanied by gag orders when they were served (one in 2015, one in 2016), preventing us from notifying the impacted account holders or publicly disclosing their existence.

Today, we’re publishing our latest transparency report, which includes data from January through June 2016. Along with posting the newest data, we have updated our report site to make all of the various information easier to understand and navigate. Upgrades include bigger, bolder visualizations, clearer explanations about the numbers, and more granular details about many of the requests we receive.

We stand with journalists on every corner of the world — those who are free to express, and especially those who have their abilities to do what they love curtailed.

Since our first transparency report was published in 2012, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in the number of content removal requests we receive from governments, law enforcement, and other authorized organizations. While we continue to publish copies of these requests on Lumen for public review, we’ve also been evaluating ways to provide additional transparency into these requests.

We were in Spain this week working with civil society organisations to demonstrate the campaigning power of Twitter.

At our Flight conference in October, our CEO Jack Dorsey spoke about Twitter’s responsibilities to developers and users

We’ve created a public policy site to inform people of critical global policy issues and establish transparency around Twitter’s political engagement.