Although almost all EU member states now have a national coordinator for the Digital Services Act (DSA) (see EUROPE 13635/25), only thirteen of them have so far designated an “official content verifier” known as a “trusted flagger” under the DSA.
These trusted flaggers are organisations with expertise in detecting certain types of illegal content online, such as hate speech or terrorist content. Their notifications are supposed to be processed as a priority by the relevant platforms.
According to an overview published by the European Commission, those countries who do have such an organisation in place are Austria, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta and Romania.
The European Commission is preparing the future publication of “guidelines” for national authorities to assist with “streamlining the process of appointing organisations”, as well as guidance on how online platforms “should handle those trusted flaggers that misuse their status”. (Original version in French by Isalia Stieffatre)