In a database set up by the EU Commission, online platforms such as Tiktok and Instagram must for the first time make public how they deal with problematic content. But essential information is missing.
X (formerly Twitter) is said to have completely removed tweets or comments nineteen times in the past six months because they violated platform rules or laws. Nineteen times. A quick look into the abyss of Elon Musk’s platform is enough to guess: That’s very little. And the public only knows about the few deletions because X had to make them public.