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The European Commission accepted TikTok's binding Digital Services Act commitments on ad transparency in December 2025. We tested the live Commercial Content Library in July 2026: full ad content and 24-hour updates are live, but the promised age-and-gender reach data and search filters are not.
The European Commission fined X €120 million over its DSA ad repository in December 2025. We tested the live repository in July 2026: it still is not searchable, still lacks the data Article 39 requires, and is now slower than when it was fined.
The monthly-active-user counts, ad libraries and transparency reports behind this site all exist for one reason: the EU's Digital Services Act forces very large platforms to publish them. Here are the specific articles that make it possible — and why the same numbers don't exist anywhere else.
The latest EU DSA transparency reports are in: TikTok (178.3M EU users, July–Dec 2025), X (102M, Apr–Jun 2025) and Google/YouTube (Jan–Jun 2025). What the platforms reported, and why the numbers don't compare directly.
The European Commission fined AliExpress €550 million for failing to diligently assess and mitigate the risk of illegal, unsafe and counterfeit products on its marketplace. It is the largest DSA fine so far, surpassing the €200M Temu decision. AliExpress must submit an action plan by 20 October 2026.
Brussels accepted X’s plan to fix its ad repository and open up researcher data access. X now has six months and an independent audit ahead. As of our 12 July test, none of it is fixed yet.
Two more platforms join the tracker. Snapchat: 94.8M EU monthly users, plus the Commission's open proceeding on protection of minors. LinkedIn: 55.2M logged-in EU users. Both with per-country data and DSA transparency reports.
Seven months after its €120M DSA fine, X’s ad repository still is not searchable, still lacks the data Article 39 requires, and is now slower than when it was fined.
The European Commission has preliminarily found Meta's addictive design — infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications — in breach of the DSA, with fines up to 6% of global turnover in play. We've added it to our enforcement tracker.
European Union · Digital Services Act (DSA)
Every figure on this page comes from disclosures the EU forces very large platforms to publish. No other jurisdiction mandates them, which is why numbers like these simply don’t exist for the US or anywhere else.
No law says anyone has to keep it. An American ad can reach millions of people and vanish the day it stops running — its wording, its buyer and its real reach gone with it. When one turns out to be a scam, there's usually nothing left to show a regulator.
The Digital Services Act forces the largest platforms to log each ad in a public, searchable archive and leave it there for a year after it last ran. It has teeth: in December 2025 the Commission fined X €120 million, partly over an ad archive that didn't actually work.
A myth says NGO "trusted flaggers" and moderators drive social-media takedowns. The platforms’ own EU DSA transparency reports say the opposite: their automated systems account for 98.6–99.7% of removals, while trusted flaggers account for roughly one action in every 622,000. We audited the latest reports from TikTok, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.
“Industrial-Scale Manipulation”: how bot networks are hijacking TikTok in Germany to boost far-right AfD content, distorting public opinion with fake engagement and extremist hate speech.
On the abuse of TikTok’s algorithms and synthetic engagement systems during Romania’s now-cancelled presidential elections in 2024