Online Hate Moderation: Removals Hit a Plateau, Persistent Blind Spots
The 2025 monitoring of the Code of Conduct, now incorporated into the DSA, confirms a high level of content removal, but a slight decline compared with 2022.
Now integrated into the framework of the Digital Services Act (DSA), the European Code of Conduct on online hate speech confirms a high level of moderation by platforms. But the 2025 monitoring exercise shows a shift: across all platforms, 60.6% of reported content was removed, compared with roughly 64% in 2022. This slowdown is accompanied by fewer swift removals. In 2025, 57.7% of reports are reviewed…
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