CSAM has a well-established self-regulatory trusted flagger structure.

April 30, 2026 - Under DSA, trusted flaggers are responsible for detecting potentially illegal content and alert online platforms. They are entities designated by the national Digital Services Coordinators.

Trusted Flagger Platform is a secure online platform that enables trusted partners of Tech Against Terrorism to submit terrorist content removal requests to tech platforms hosting verified terrorist content.

November 2, 2023 - Flagging is the process by which third parties can report potentially harmful content to platforms for content moderation review. Organisations that are formally recognised as trusted for identifying and reporting illegal content, are called Trusted Flaggers.

November 8, 2024 - Trusted Flagger – „vertrauenswürdige Hinweisgeber“ – beruhen auf dem Digital Services Act (DSA), einer Verordnung der EU. Nach Art. 22 Abs. 1 DSA handelt es sich um von den Mitgliedstaaten zertifizierte Organisationen (meist NGOs), ...

April 14, 2026 - Trusted flaggers are organizations or units designated as experts in detecting specific illegal content who submit notices through platform notice-and-action systems; under the DSA those notices must be treated with priority and processed “without undue delay,” though platforms still apply ...

February 23, 2024 - Trusted flaggers are public and private actors with privileged access to internet platforms through which they can identify illegal and harmful content. Before DSA, trusted flaggers existed as a voluntary system.

July 6, 2025 - trusted flagger means an individual or entity which is considered by a hosting service provider to have particular expertise and responsibilities for the purposes of tackling illegal content online;

On this basis, we conceptualize different variants of trusted flagging, in terms of their legal construction, position in the content moderation process and the nature of their flagging privileges. We then discuss competing narratives about the role of trusted flaggers; as a source of expertise and representation; as an unaccountable co-optation by public and private power; and as a performance of inclusion.

Trusted flaggers have long played a role in content moderation: a bilateral, voluntary affair between online platforms and individuals or organisations that are afforded prioritised access to the content moderation process.

Trusted flaggers are on the rise in platform governance.

July 19, 2020 - Back in 2012, we noticed that certain people were particularly active in reporting Community Guidelines violations with an extraordinarily high rate of accuracy. From this insight, the Trusted Flagger program was born to provide more robust tools for people or organizations who are particularly interested in and effective at notifying us of content that violates our Community Guidelines.

January 9, 2025 - It imposes asymmetric due diligence obligations on online platforms depending on their size and impact. Article 22 focuses on so-called ‘trusted flaggers’ — entities equipped with specialised expertise in flagging illegal content.

April 30, 2024 - Article 22 of the DSA further requires that providers of online platforms (i.e., a hosting service which, at the request of the user, stores and disseminates information to the public) must take the necessary technical and organisational measures to ensure that notices submitted by so-called trusted flaggers, acting within their area of expertise, are given priority, and are processed and decided upon without undue delay.

Issues reported by priority flaggers are not automatically removed or subject to any different policy treatment - the same standards apply for user flags. However, because of their high degree of trust and expertise, our teams prioritize flags from priority flaggers for review.

In the European Union, national entities called Digital Services Coordinators have designated “Trusted Flaggers,” which are entities tasked with flagging allegedly illegal content on our platforms. Trusted Flaggers are likely to have expertise in one or more fields relevant to content ...

Trusted flaggers shall send those reports to the awarding Digital Services Coordinator, and shall make them publicly available.

DSC must ensure a reasonable balance of Trusted Flagger (TF) entities.

The Priority Flagger program exists to help enforce our Community Guidelines.

‘Trusted flagger’ (TF) refers to an individual or entity that is considered by an online service provider (OSP) to have expertise in flagging and reporting illegal and/or harmful content online.