Editorial standards

Sources

• Every story links to its primary source: the official platform policy page, the official regulator page, or the EU DSA Transparency Database.
• No unsourced quotes. We do not invent or paraphrase-as-quote statements from platforms, regulators or people.
• No unsourced statistics. A number is published only if it comes from the primary source or from AuditSocials data, and it is checked against that data.
• No invented names of programmes, features, cases, fines or deadlines.
• When something is not known — for example, an effective date the platform did not give — we say so.

Enforcement data

• DSA figures are moderation decisions that platforms report about themselves. They are not counts of posts or users, and we do not describe them as findings of wrongdoing.
• We do not claim that a policy change caused a movement in enforcement data.
• Only days for which every platform has reported are used; the newest days are left out until they settle.
• Source: EU DSA Transparency Database, CC BY 4.0 — shown on every chart and table built from it.

AI and human review

• Stories are drafted with AI from a fact sheet built directly from our database.
• Software checks every figure in a draft against that fact sheet; a draft that fails is not published.
• A member of the AuditSocials team then reviews each story against its sources and approves, edits or rejects it. Nothing is published without that approval, and every decision is logged.
• Each story states that it was drafted with AI and reviewed before publication.

Scope

We cover how platforms set and enforce their rules: ad rejections and ad policy, account restrictions and bans, content removals, monetisation changes, and the regulator actions that shape them.