The European Commission has launched its transparency database of platforms‘ #contentmoderation decisions (statements of reasons in #digitalservicesact lingo). It already contains thousands of records from platforms such as #TikTok that will hopefully give some quantitative insights into their content moderation approaches, the degree of automation etc. Unfortunately, the qualitative information on individual decisions is very limited. https://transparency.dsa.ec.europa.eu/statement

I hope the restrictions on csv exports of the transparency information will be lifted by the Commission. So far, we’ve had voluntary sharing of #contentmoderation info by some platforms through @LumenDatabase. This mandatory database could offer so many more insights, but the data needs to be fully downloadable. I advocated for this transparency provision in the #DSA, hope journalists find it useful! @josephcox @jasonkoebler @samleecole

@LumenDatabase @josephcox @jasonkoebler @samleecole I'm not really getting anywhere with the web search functionality. I would like to filter all results by platform, but there seems to be no straight-forward way to do so. Full-text search for "instagram" doesn't yield any results, Advanced Search seems to be set up for very specific queries, not for exploratory data analysis. @mikarv curious what you think.

@LumenDatabase @josephcox @jasonkoebler @samleecole @mikarv Meanwhile, the rate at which new entries are coming in is staggering. It was 300,000 entries when I first looked an hour ago, now it's 500,000.