What the Latest Round of DSA Transparency Reports Reveals (2025–26)
Every Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) operating in the EU must publish a transparency report under the Digital Services Act (DSA) roughly every six months. A fresh round has now landed across the major platforms. Here is what the latest filings say — using only the figures reported by the platforms themselves — and how they compare.
TikTok — July to December 2025
TikTok’s sixth DSA transparency report (published 27 February 2026) covers 1 July to 31 December 2025. It reports an average of 178.3 million monthly active recipients across the EU. During the period TikTok received 714,523 notices of allegedly illegal content (212 of them from DSA-approved trusted flaggers), acting on them in a median of 5.83 hours — and under one hour (0.98h) for trusted-flagger notices.
The scale of automation is striking: TikTok records 220,217,619 moderation measures taken solely by automated means, against 14,874,341 actions involving human review, and reports automation accuracy of 91.8% (precision 97.6%, recall 93.8%). It lists 3,674 human moderators with EU-language expertise (91 employed internally, 3,583 contracted).
X — April to June 2025
X’s DSA transparency report (published 29 October 2025) covers 1 April to 30 June 2025 and reports about 102 million average monthly active recipients in the EU — its largest markets being France (18.4M), Spain (16.7M) and Germany (14.9M). X says it suspended 89,151 accounts for violating its Child Sexual Exploitation policy and 3,248 for its Violent and Hateful Entity policy, and received 185 reports from Article 22 trusted flaggers. It reports having processed zero out-of-court dispute settlements to date.
Google & YouTube — January to June 2025
Google’s biannual VLOSE/VLOP report (published 28 August 2025) covers 1 January to 30 June 2025 across Search, Maps, Play, Shopping and YouTube. In response to Article 16 notices, YouTube took 417,129 actions on content deemed illegal plus 7,019 on content violating its own policies; Google Maps took 919,363 actions on illegal content. YouTube alone received 422,018 copyright notices over the period.
Meta (Facebook & Instagram)
Meta publishes its DSA transparency, audit and Article 24 monthly-active-recipient reports through its Regulatory Transparency Reports hub, with the second-half-2025 reporting now reflected in its H1 2026 integrity release.
A note on comparability
These numbers are not directly comparable across platforms. Each company defines “active recipients,” “notices” and “actions” differently — X, for example, counts both logged-in and logged-out users, while categories of illegal content and the boundary between automated and human moderation vary by service. The value of the DSA regime is less in any single headline figure than in forcing this data into the open, on a regular cadence, where it can be tracked over time.
Sources: each platform’s official DSA transparency report, linked from the platform pages on this site.
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