With rising threats in the digital landscape and heightened user awareness, leading digital platforms have started publishing transparency reports to provide insights into the enforcement of their platform policies and actions taken to ensure user safety. Researchers, human rights experts, journalists, and advertisers, among others, can use these reports as they provide metrics and insights into government requests for content takedowns and categorization and platform enforcement actions.
This viewpoint examines the intricacies of transparency reporting and discusses current challenges and emerging concerns. It also highlights the role that service and technology providers play and outlines key considerations to enhance transparency in reporting.
Scope
Industry: trust and safety
Geography: global
Contents
This report examines the concept of transparency reports, their key features, current and future challenges, the role of providers, and essential considerations to enhance transparency reporting.
