As India toughens its stand against the Big Tech over its new IT rules, Facebook on Friday published its first edition of the monthly report under the new IT (Intermediary Guidelines) rules, saying that it removed 311,000 pieces of hate speech content and 1.8 million adult nudity and sexual activity content between May 15 and June 15.

The social network also removed 75,000 pieces of content under the 'Dangerous Organizations and Individuals: Organized Hate' policy, 106,000 pieces of content under the 'Dangerous Organizations and Individuals: Terrorist Propaganda' policy and 118,000 pieces of content related to bullying and harassment in India from its platform and Instagram in the same period.