This new law guarantees that all suppliers provide clear and comparable information on their practices moderate content.
The Digital services act aims at enhancing transparency and public accountability of digital services in the european Union (EU). One of these measures of transparency is the obligation of service providers in publishing reports intermediaries transparency detailing its practices of moderate content.
The reports should include specific categories of information, depending on the type of supplier, as the number of pieces of content removed, the accuracy of automated content moderation , cancellations of accounts and information about their moderation teams of content. Online platforms of very large size (VLOP) and search engines in line of very large size (VLOSE) obliged to publish such transparency reports twice a year.
The new Implementing regulations estandariza format, content, and reporting periods to these transparency reports, including its practices content moderation and containing specific categories of information. Previously, the inconsistency between the reporting practices hampered the evaluation and comparison of the practices of moderation of services intermediaries.
The reports also varied widely on the format and the interpretation of the categories of data. The reporting periods to suppliers of VLOP VLOSE and were not, depending on your dates. The Regulation addresses these inconsistencies by establishing templates and reporting periods homogeneous.
Suppliers will have to start collecting data in accordance with the implementing regulation from 1 july 2025, and first harmonized reports were scheduled for early 2026 .
The DSA also introduces other transparency measures, such as the publication of the average monthly users more details on the parameters of recommendation, access to the data for researchers, detailed information on decisions moderate content through the statements of reasons set out in the database of transparency in the DSA and greater transparency in advertising.
In order to ensure consistency between the instruments for transparency of the law of digital services, the requirements for the presentation of reasons for them in the database of transparency of the law of digital services will be updated to conform to the categories of data of the implementing regulation. From 1 july 2025, suppliers should provide reasons for them under the new requirements, as well as for transparency.
You can consult the implementing regulations and instructions
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