EU DSA — Statements of Reasons
Under the EU Digital Services Act, every content-moderation decision an in-scope platform takes must be filed to the DSA Transparency Database as an individual Statement of Reasons (SoR) — what was restricted, on what ground, and how. The raw database is enormous (billions of SoRs, ~4 TB of daily dumps), so this page serves a compact re-aggregation — built with the European Commission's own dsa-tdb toolbox — of how many SoRs each platform filed per month, cut by category, decision ground, automation and source. Volumes are dominated by a few marketplaces (Google Shopping product delistings run to hundreds of millions a month), so pin a section and usually a platform before aggregating. Top 60 platforms by volume (≈99.97% of all SoRs); coverage Sept 2023 onward.
Trends
Interactive views of the aggregated Statements of Reasons. Each chart has a text alternative for screen readers.
Statements of Reasons filed per month
Total SoRs filed to the DSA Transparency Database each month across the top 60 platforms — the overall volume of DSA content-moderation decisions.
Top platforms, by month
Monthly SoR volume for the highest-filing platforms. A few marketplaces dominate — note the log-scale-like spread between them.
By statement category (latest month)
Which of the DSA's statement categories the most recent month's decisions cite, summed across platforms.
Illegal content vs. terms violation
The decision ground each month: content restricted as illegal under law vs. as incompatible with the platform's terms.
Statements of Reasons by platform (latest month)
The most recent month's SoR counts per platform, split by decision ground and how the decision was made (automated / partially / manual). Pick a platform to explore its full history in the query builder.
Refine or extend these in the query builder (pin a section and platform before aggregating), browse the full field list on the Schema page, or read the Methodology.