Publish a transparency report
Generate a report for a period from your notices and complaints, publish it to your Privacy Center and share its address.
Article 15(1) of the DSA asks providers of intermediary services to publish a report on their content moderation at least once a year. Micro and small enterprises that aren't very large online platforms are exempt (Article 15(2)). The Transparency reports tab builds the report from the Reports tab, so there are no figures to type in. It opens once Content Safety is subscribed to and its mandate is signed.
Generate a report
- Go to Compliance › Content Safety › Transparency reports and select Generate report.
- Enter a Period label, which titles the report on your Privacy Center, then the Period start and Period end. The end day is included. The form suggests the last calendar quarter, so change it to the period you report on.
- Select Generate.
The period appears as a card marked Draft. A draft is recounted every time it's opened, so it stays current while you prepare it. You can have one report for any exact period.
What the report counts
| Figure | What it counts |
|---|---|
| Reports received | Notices whose received date falls in the period |
| Taken down, Demoted, Left up | Decisions made in the period |
| Statements issued | Take-downs plus demotions: the decisions that owe a statement of reasons, whether or not you've sent it |
| Open at period end | Notices still open, neither decided nor closed, at the end of the period |
| Median response | The median time from arrival to decision, for decisions made in the period |
| Lodged, Decision upheld, Decision reversed, Pending at period end | Complaints against decisions |
| By category | Notices received in each category, and how many were taken down |
The card shows the headline figures. Select the report's name for the full breakdown.
Publish it
Choose Publish from the card's menu, or in the open report, then select Publish report. Publishing counts the period one last time and freezes the figures: they don't change afterwards, whatever happens on the Reports tab. Nothing is sent anywhere.
The report goes up on your Privacy Center under Transparency reports, with a page of its own. To share that page, choose Copy public URL from the card's menu. Copy link copies a link to the card in the platform instead, for a colleague.
Published reports are public only while Content Safety is open. If the subscription lapses or ends, they come off your Privacy Center until the register reopens.
What visitors see
Once a report is published, your Privacy Center's home page shows a Transparency reports card that leads to every published period. Each report's page gives the period, the publication date and three groups of figures:
- Notices received: notices received, content removed or disabled, content left up, notices still undecided at the period's close, statements of reasons issued, and the breakdown by category.
- Complaints: lodged, upheld, reversed and pending at the period's close.
- Response time: the median time from notice to decision.
Demotions don't have a line of their own on the public page, though they count towards the statements of reasons issued.
Unpublish or delete
Unpublish takes a report back to draft: it comes off your Privacy Center, its address stops working and the frozen figures are discarded, so publishing again counts afresh. Delete draft removes a draft. A published report can't be deleted, only unpublished. Each of these acts is written to the audit log.
What the report doesn't cover
The report counts what the Reports tab holds. Where they apply to you, Article 15(1) asks for more figures than that, and the platform doesn't count them:
- Orders from Member State authorities (point (a)), even those that reach you on the Representative tab, and moderation you do on your own initiative (point (c)).
- Notices from trusted flaggers, actions split by law or by your terms, and notices processed by automated means (point (b)). The CSV export has columns for the reporter's role, the legal ground and automated detection if you need to count them.
- The basis of complaints and the median time to decide them (point (d)), and a description of any automated moderation (point (e)).
- For online platforms, the out-of-court disputes and suspensions Article 24(1) adds.
Since 1 July 2025, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2835 also requires transparency reports to be based on its templates, filled in as CSV or XLSX, to cover the calendar year, to be published within two months of the year's end, and to stay publicly available for at least five years. The report the platform publishes isn't built on those templates, and it comes off your Privacy Center if you unpublish it or the register closes.