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Counting without accountability? An analysis of the DSA’s transparency reports

Author: Ohnesorge, J.
Published in: Digital society blog
Year: 2025
Type: Other publications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17201618

The Digital Services Act aims to hold platforms more accountable for illegal content by demanding greater transparency. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok or X must now publish detailed reports, showing, for example, how many posts they removed and how quickly. These reports are meant to give regulators, researchers, and the public insight into how well platforms are enforcing the rules. But do the reports really deliver what they promise? Or is this measure just a new but ultimately useless addition to the flood of EU reports without any actual improvements in practice?

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