Online platforms have published a new set of reports detailing measures taken under the European Union’s Code of Conduct on Disinformation.The reports cover the period from 1 January to 30 June 2026. They include chapters on actions relating to ongoing crises, notably the war in Ukraine, and measures intended to safeguard the integrity of elections. They also provide data on the implementation of platforms’ disinformation-related measures and highlight developments in their policies, tools and partnerships, according to the European Commission.
Meta says it removed more than 11 million advertisements from Facebook and Instagram during the reporting period, including more than 6 million removed for violating its misinformation policy. It says that more than 810,000 advertisements carried “paid for by” disclaimers. Meta also reports removing one coordinated-inauthentic-behaviour network that targeted, or potentially targeted, one or more countries in the European Economic Area; it identifies the operation as affecting Poland and Belarus.
Separately, Meta says it took action against 692 million fake accounts on Facebook globally in the third quarter of 2025 and 1.1 billion in the fourth quarter. It estimates that fake accounts represented about 4 per cent of worldwide daily active people on Facebook in the third quarter and 5 per cent in the fourth.
Meta also says it began gradually introducing “AI Info” labels for video advertisements created or significantly edited with its generative-AI creative tools. It reports publishing its first Media Literacy Annual Plan on 21 July 2025 and describes election-related work covering Norway, the Czech Republic, Ireland and the Netherlands.
Google’s submission covers Google Search, YouTube and Google Advertising. In its report, Google describes election-response measures, protections for campaigns and election officials, systems for identifying coordinated influence operations, and tools intended to help users assess AI-generated or altered content.
Google says it activated temporary rapid-response systems at the European Commission’s request for elections in the Czech Republic, Ireland, Moldova and the Netherlands. It also describes YouTube labels for realistic altered or synthetic content, disclosure requirements for election advertisements containing synthetic content, and the “About This Image” feature in Search. Google identifies its participation in the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity as part of its work on content provenance.
Google says that more than 10 billion pieces of content had been watermarked with SynthID. It also says that harmful, altered or synthetic political content did not appear to be widespread on Google’s platforms, a conclusion attributed to Google rather than to an external auditor.
In relation to the war in Ukraine, Google says it monitored and disrupted coordinated influence operations, continued to pause most commercial activity in Russia, and maintained cybersecurity assistance, including Project Shield’s protection against distributed denial-of-service attacks. The report also describes Google’s assessment of threats from state-backed actors. Those passages record Google’s own threat-intelligence findings and actions.
TikTok’s report describes advertising controls, moderation procedures, user reporting and partnerships with third-party measurement and brand-safety providers. TikTok says it introduced more granular advertising policies in the European Economic Area covering health misinformation, environmental and climate misinformation, public-safety and trust misinformation, election misinformation and other misinformation.
Platform Compliance and Anti-Disinformation Actions
During the second half of 2025, TikTok reports removing 2,044 advertisements in the European Union and 2,209 in the European Economic Area under those granular misinformation advertising policies. It reports 1,133,416 impressions in the EU and 1,156,461 in the EEA for the removed advertisements. TikTok says the figures are based on where advertisements were displayed and that the methodology was revised during the reporting period to reflect changes in deduplication logic.
TikTok reports that its Inventory Filter was available in 29 EEA countries. It also describes advertising measurement and brand-safety partnerships with Zefr, Integral Ad Science and DoubleVerify, with availability varying by country. The TikTok report says advertisers could appeal enforcement decisions, and records show zero appeals and zero overturns for advertisements removed under the granular misinformation advertising policies during the reporting period.
The reports are available through the Code’s Transparency Centre. This is the second time that platform signatories have reported on the implementation of their commitments since the 2022 Code of Practice on Disinformation was recognised as a Code of Conduct under the EU’s Digital Services Act. The Code was integrated into the DSA’s co-regulatory framework on 1 July 2025, following a request from the signatories.
Platform Compliance and Anti-Disinformation Actions
The Code was established in 2018 and significantly strengthened in 2022. The strengthened version contains 44 commitments and 128 specific measures covering areas including the demonetisation of disinformation, transparency in political advertising, the integrity of online services, user empowerment, researcher access to data and support for fact-checking, according to the European Commission’s policy documentation.
The reports document the companies’ stated policies, tools, partnerships and implementation measures. They should not, on their own, be treated as evidence that online disinformation has declined. The Code includes a strengthened monitoring framework, including qualitative reporting, service-level indicators and a commitment to develop structural indicators for assessing its broader impact, as set out in the Commission’s policy documentation.