Over 1.1 million social media accounts have been suspended by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) for allegedly posting unlawful information and waging a hate campaign against government institutions.
Around 10,500 of the 1.2 million social media IDs that were the subject of complaints were found to be innocent, and action is being taken against the other 1.1 million.
In response to public concerns about illegal information on social media, the regulator reportedly took action.
The statistics of PTA’s action against a sizable number of social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, etc. are shown in the table below.
| Social Media Platform | Total Accounts | Blocked | Action Under-Process | Non-Guilty |
| Miscellaneous/Others | 884,835 | 878,300 | 6,273 | 262 |
| 134,549 | 112,398 | 17,548 | 4,603 | |
| 63,233 | 31,870 | 28,070 | 3,293 | |
| TikTok | 65,122 | 63,632 | 1,407 | 83 |
| YouTube | 42,832 | 36,138 | 4,533 | 2,161 |
| 10,919 | 8,078 | 2,671 | 170 | |
| Snack Video | 3,775 | 3,602 | 71 | 6 |
| Likee | 1,036 | 965 | – | – |
| Dailymotion | 576 | 531 | – | – |
In a different statement, PTA stated that it is coordinating with telecom companies to ensure that communication services are quickly restored in the flood-affected areas.
According to reports, 3,386 sites were damaged by flooding, and 3,251 of them have already been repaired. It read,
“Work is in progress for complete restoration of telecom services in flood affected areas on top priority.”
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