Transparency reporting on terrorist and violent extremist content online
An update on the global top 50 content sharing services
This benchmarking report explores the degree to which the world’s top 50 online content-sharing
services’ approaches to terrorist and violent extremist content (TVEC) online have
evolved since a first report in 2020. This new edition finds there has been tangible
progress: 11 services have issued TVEC-specific transparency reports over the past
year (6 more than in 2020); and the 5 services that already issued such reports now
provide additional information. However, transparency reports expressly addressing
TVEC remain uncommon and services continue to use different metrics, definitions and
reporting frequencies. It remains difficult to gain an industry-wide perspective on
the efficacy of companies’ measures to combat TVEC online and how they may affect
human rights. Meanwhile, there is a growing risk of regulatory fragmentation due to
unco-ordinated transparency requirements across jurisdictions. There is an urgent
need for increased, and more comparable, TVEC reporting.
Published on July 15, 2021Also available in: French
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