One Day in Content Moderation: Analyzing 24 h of Social Media Platforms’ Content Decisions through the DSA Transparency Database

Abstract

This report examines how social media platforms moderated user content over a single day. It analyzes whether decisions were automated or manual, the visibility measures applied, and which content categories were most subject to moderation by specific platforms on that day. The dataset was obtained from the DSA’s database daily reports page. We selected only social media platforms from all the designated VLOPs reporting their decisions. As of now, these platforms include Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X (formally known as Twitter) Snapchat, Pinterest, and LinkedIn.