Exhibit 1148 ยท Platform transparency data
Government requests to remove content (Google Transparency Report), data download of 1 July to 31 December 2025 edition
We also include government requests to review content to determine if it violates our own product community guidelines and content policies.
Counts requests from courts and government agencies in six-month periods since 2011 (603,116 requests and 7,839,386 items named for removal as of the December 2025 data). The U.S. rows of the downloadable CSV (government-removals_2025-7-1_2025-12-31_en_v1.zip, SHA-256 3196b7d5755a9c1e141b6b0c6e6e27c5b6f670aa32e0d975e816736179e79a71) give, by calendar year, requests / items named: 2017 1,819 / 32,222; 2018 1,523 / 45,202; 2019 852 / 118,007; 2020 596 / 9,482; 2021 717 / 6,991; 2022 544 / 3,195; 2023 788 / 7,021; 2024 660 / 5,207; 2025 539 / 2,690. In 2021 the U.S. reasons were defamation 332, trademark 127, privacy and security 89, bullying and harassment 47, other 45, copyright 23, and smaller categories; the report's reason list has no category for misinformation, and its only U.S. 'national security' rows in 2021 total 2 requests. The requester categories were reorganized in 2019 (README: 'Judicial' and 'Executive' through 2018; court orders directed at Google or third parties, police, government officials, military and others from 2019), so court-order and agency shares are not comparable across that line. The report states it counts requests from courts and government agencies, including court orders not directed at Google.
- Source
- Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
- Date
- Data through 31 December 2025; accessed 10 November 2026
- Quoted from
- Report page, introduction to 'Government removal requests by the numbers'
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://transparencyreport.google.com/government-removals/government-requests
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Counts re-derived by the researcher from the CSV (sums of number_of_requests and items_requested for cldr_territory = US). The report's scope text says requests to review content against product policies are included; the Alphabet letter (alphabet-2025-donovan-letter-to-jordan) describes White House outreach about content that did not violate Google's policies, and no row of the report is labeled as such. A Wayback capture was requested on 10 November 2026; the page renders by script.