Social Media Platforms DSA Compliance

EU Monthly Active Users by Platform

Average monthly active recipients (EU) · latest DSA filings


Separate metric · accounts, not unique users
Google and YouTube report signed-in accounts and signed-out sessions separately and state these figures cannot be compared to other providers — shown for context only, never mixed into the comparison.

The metric is each platform’s average monthly active recipients (AMAR) in the EU, averaged over six months — the figure the DSA obliges very large platforms to publish (Art. 24(2)).

Social Media Transparency

Sources: Meta (1 Jul–31 Dec 2025, publ. 27 Feb 2026) · TikTok (1 Jul–31 Dec 2025) · X (October 2025) · Snapchat (1 Jan–30 Jun 2025, publ. 29 Aug 2025) · LinkedIn (1 Jul–31 Dec 2025, publ. 26 Feb 2026) · Google (1 Jul–31 Dec 2025) · Refreshed ~6-monthly. Not directly comparable across periods — providers revise how they count these figures over time.

European Union · Digital Services Act (DSA)

This data exists only because of the 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.

  • Art. 24(2)Monthly active users, published twice a year
  • Art. 15 + 42Content-moderation transparency reports
  • Art. 39Public, searchable ad repositories
  • Art. 40Data access for vetted researchers

Why this data only exists in Europe

Scope

DSA-designated platforms we don’t cover yet

The European Commission has designated more Very Large Online Platforms and Search Engines under the DSA than the 8 above. We haven’t built compliance coverage for the rest yet — listed here so the gap is stated plainly rather than left unmentioned.

  • Marketplaces

    Amazon Store, AliExpress, Shein, Temu, Zalando, Booking.com

  • App stores

    Apple App Store, Google Play

  • Search engines

    Bing

  • Other Google services

    Google Maps, Google Shopping

  • Reference

    Wikipedia

  • Messaging

    WhatsApp

  • Adult content

    Pornhub, XVideos, XNXX