Every moderation action Pinterest reports under the EU Digital Services Act — grouped by violation type and linked to the Pinterest Community Guidelines and Merchant Guidelines that govern each enforcement bucket.
| Category | Sat Oct 24 | Fri Oct 23 | Thu Oct 22 | Wed Oct 21 | Tue Oct 20 | Mon Oct 19 | Sun Oct 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Community guideline violations 1,379,994 total | 95,517 | 274,424 | 237,519 | 121,071 | 143,337 | 205,021 | 303,105 |
Violence 429,222 total | 26,739 | 47,213 | 164,438 | 60,989 | 29,883 | 77,398 | 22,562 |
Self-harm 305,275 total | 20,173 | 44,069 | 19,946 | 30,349 | 116,637 | 57,223 | 16,878 |
Illegal or harmful speech 299,328 total | 29,742 | 37,869 | 18,941 | 23,765 | 152,158 | 24,265 | 12,588 |
Unsafe, non-compliant or prohibited products 137,354 total | 17,163 | 21,191 | 19,553 | 16,130 | 26,151 | 19,725 | 17,441 |
Intellectual property infringements 119,572 total | 36,359 | 32,415 | 34,050 | 5,053 | 3,216 | 4,730 | 3,749 |
Cyber violence 98,304 total | 5,344 | 8,762 | 34,139 | 8,402 | 6,255 | 10,531 | 24,871 |
Data protection and privacy violations 28,154 total | 2,644 | 8,506 | 3,739 | 2,250 | 756 | 9,874 | 385 |
Negative effects on civic discourse or elections 4,332 total | 139 | 560 | 499 | 2,237 | 177 | 215 | 505 |
Scams and/or fraud 2,205 total | 19 | 745 | 168 | 822 | 198 | 208 | 45 |
Protection of minors 28 total | — | 3 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 8 | — |
Animal welfare 0 total | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Consumer information infringements 0 total | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Cyber violence against women 0 total | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Risk for public security 0 total | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Unspecified notices 0 total | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Daily total | 233,839 | 475,757 | 532,997 | 271,073 | 478,775 | 409,198 | 402,129 |
Three patterns the operators who keep their Pinterest accounts watch for — and how to read this page like one of them.
Pinterest's content is image-led and highly remixable, which produces a structurally different enforcement profile from text- or video-first platforms. Merchant catalogs (Product Pins, Shop tabs) are reviewed under a separate Merchant Guidelines bar, so both the Community Guidelines and Merchant Guidelines links in the sidebar are relevant when reading the 'Unsafe products' row.
For brands selling on Pinterest, the 'Intellectual property infringements' and 'Unsafe products' rows are the most operationally relevant. A sustained rise is a reason to review your catalog; the DSA data doesn't show which merchants were affected. If you spot a darkening 'Intellectual property' row over consecutive days, treat it as a cue to audit your most recently added Product Pins.
Pinterest's lower platform volume relative to Meta means individual category trends are less noisy and easier to read. The heat scale is per-row, so categories like 'Spam' and 'Hateful activities' that don't dominate the absolute counts still surface their own internal patterns. Policy banners above the matrix mark days where our scanner detected a Pinterest Community Guidelines or Merchant Guidelines change — compare them with the matching row, but treat any overlap as a signal to watch rather than proof that the change is being applied.
Not knowing what changed in these rules is what got the accounts in the table suspended, demonetized, or removed. Read the rule, or get alerted the moment Pinterest updates it — your call.
Pinterest's enforcement on commerce content (Idea Pins, Product Pins, merchant catalogs) is methodical and cumulative. Get alerted the moment a Community Guideline or Merchant Guideline shifts, so you adjust before your reach drops.