Independent Audit of Facebook's DSA Risk Assessment
Independent audit examining Facebook's systemic-risk assessment under the EU Digital Services Act (period 29 Aug 2023-30 June 2024).
Executive summary
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This report presents an independent audit of Facebook's systemic risk assessment under the EU Digital Services Act, covering the reporting period from 29 August 2023 to 30 June 2024, during which Meta was required to identify and mitigate risks such as disinformation, harm to civic discourse, and impacts on users' fundamental rights.
The audit evaluates the adequacy and rigor of Facebook's self-assessment process rather than commissioning new empirical measurement of platform harms, examining whether Meta's own reporting meets the substantive obligations the DSA places on very large online platforms to identify systemic risks and describe mitigation measures.
As an external check on a self-reported compliance document, the audit's purpose is to test whether the risk-assessment process functions as intended and to flag where Meta's account of its own risk mitigation may fall short of DSA expectations, part of Panoptykon's broader push for independent scrutiny of platform self-assessments rather than reliance on companies' own claims.
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