Dhaka, Nov. 29 -- The interim government has offered an explanation for the content-removal requests sent to Google between January and June, rejecting media reports that it asked the platform to remove material critical of the administration.

It also expressed disappointment over news reports on the matter.

A statement from the Chief Advisor's Office (CAO) on Friday said, "The government assures citizens that outside of character assassination involving misinformation, propaganda, or fake content, it has not asked any platform to remove news from newspapers, posts on social media, videos, reels, online articles, or any politically critical content by internal critics."

Several media outlets had reported that Bangladesh made 279 reques...