EU Moderation Watchdog Says Social Media Giants Hate Taking Down Hate Speech
ACE said it overturned 70% of reviewed moderation decisions and found the worst rates on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.
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There is a point of contact in the EU for complaints about social media. It clearly criticises the platforms.
EU moderation watchdog says social media giants hate taking down hate speech
The EU's moderation appeals watchdog says Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube routinely leave hate speech online while stonewalling attempts to independently review suspended accounts. Appeals Centre Europe, an Ireland-certified dispute settlement body operating under the EU's Digital Services Act, says it overturned platforms' decisions not to remove reported hate speech 70 percent of the time between April 2025 and March 2026, including c…
If social media platforms delete too much or too little, users can complain to the Appeals Centre Europe. In more than 1,700 cases, the conciliators thought that the decisions of the tech companies were wrong. They criticize "marking and recurring problems". If their own rules are not followed by the social media platforms, they remain pure blablabla. – Publicly released by unsplash.com: Mika BaumeisterPlatforms only fill their own rules against…
According to a major transparency report, social media platforms are failing to remove antisemitic content in the EU
Social media platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube are systematically failing to enforce their own hate speech policies, according to a major transparency report. Appeals Centre Europe (ACE), an independent body set up under the European Union’s Digital Services Act to handle user disputes, said in the year to March 2026, it received more than 24,000 disputes from people and organisations across the EU, which marks roughly o…
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