Between 2013 and 2022, Russia had the highest number of content removal requests sent to Google by the government, with more than 215 thousand requests. South Korea ranked second, with over 267 thousand requests for content removal. India's government sent over 195 thousand requests to Google for online content removal in the measured period.
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