Uneven Moderation Across Platforms: Differences in DSA Content Removals in 2025
Of 13,187 posts and comments reported under the DSA across seven EU languages in 2025, 34.6% were removed overall, but action rates ranged from 71.3% on YouTube down to 12.5% on X, a roughly 5.7x disparity that evidences sharply uneven DSA enforcement between platforms.
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Reset Tech reported 13,187 posts and comments to major platforms under the DSA's notice-and-action mechanism across seven EU languages during 2025, then tracked how many were acted on.
Overall 34.6% of reported items were removed, but the rate varied enormously by platform: YouTube acted on 71.3% of reports while X acted on just 12.5%, a gap of about 5.7 times. The study reads this spread as direct evidence that comparable illegal or violating content is treated very differently depending on which platform hosts it.
Reset Tech concludes that self-reported DSA transparency figures obscure large real-world enforcement gaps, and calls for independent, standardised measurement of platforms' content-moderation performance.
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