The Appeals Centre Europe, created under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), has criticised major platforms for failing to cooperate in content moderation disputes. The body, which handles appeals from EU users regarding removed content or suspended accounts, found YouTube particularly unresponsive. From November 2024 to August 2025, the centre received nearly 10,000 disputes but was able to adjudicate only 29 out of 343 eligible cases involving YouTube due to a lack of information. Other platforms under review include Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, and Threads. The centre has issued around 1,500 decisions overall, ruling in users’ favour when platforms withheld details. The DSA continues to face scrutiny in the US, where it is criticised as “foreign censorship.”
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