Europe 1 with AFP 18:41 p.m., November 05, 2023

The social network X (ex-Twitter) published Sunday its first transparency report on the control of content, required by the DSA regulation of the European Union: France, which holds, in Europe, the palm of violent and illegal speech, has 52 moderators.

Among the 27 members of the EU, reports of content, deletions and suspensions for violent and hateful speech within X are the most numerous in France, far ahead of Germany and Spain.

The monitoring of content on the network in France conducted by X led to 16,288 deletions of messages against 7,160 in Germany and 7,743 in Spain, the most active country on the network in terms of users.

'Human moderators'

X's transparency report covers the period from August 28 to October 20. In France, among these deleted contents, there are nearly 4,300 harassing messages against more than 1,000 in Germany and 1,200 in Spain.

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There were also more than 6,000 violent remarks, compared with less than 2,000 in Germany, 1,100 in the Netherlands and 4,100 in Spain. This transparency report is required by the EU's new regulation, the Digital Services Act (DSA), which came into force in August.

It requires major online platforms -- from X and Meta to TikTok and Google --,-- to take action to remove illegal content and detail how they moderate content. X explains that he has an "international and cross-functional team" of "human moderators", who work "24 hours a day with the ability to cover multiple languages".

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In the case of France, X -- which moderates much of the content automatically -- has 52 human moderators in French, the report said. The network has 2,294 in English, 81 in German, 12 in Arabic and 2 in Italian.

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