These two platforms removed the least amount of misinformation. "Dirty Hands"

On Wednesday, the Scientific and Academic Computer Network (NASK) published a report titled "Reaction of social media platforms to reports in the first half of 2026." It shows that during this period, the state research institute reported over 65,000 to social media platforms. disinformation content. Platforms removed only 4,380 of them (6.7%), and another 11,000. (17.3%) submitted to moderation. The remaining 49.5 thousand reports (76%) remained unanswered.

Gawkowski: Every platform has dirty hands

During the presentation of the NASK report, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Affairs Krzysztof Gawkowski announced that he had asked social media platforms to create Polish-language teams dealing with content moderation.

Every social media platform has its hands dirty when it comes to keeping the internet safe and clean from disinformation. Each. The differences are that some do not react at all, while others react minimally - said Gawkowski during a conference at the PAP Press Center.

These platforms removed the least amount of misinformation

The authors of the report also analyzed the reactions of individual platforms to reports. Discord did not remove any reported publication (4 reports). In the case of the X platform, 2.4 percent was removed. reported content (1,438 out of 60,132), and 18.7% were moderated. content (11,230).

Threads removed only 6.9 percent. reports (2 out of 29 reports), Telegram 11.1 percent (1 out of 9), and Google, which supports Google Ads and YouTube, removed 11.5%. reports (37 out of 322).

Bluesky removed most (98.6%) of the content reported by NASK. This represents 69 reports removed against 70 reports. Facebook was next, removing 63.6 percent. (2150 of 3381) materials. However, 1.1 percent content (37) was moderated. TikTok was third (55.7%) in terms of the number of content removed. This is 618 removed materials against 1,109 reports. Three materials were moderated. The Instagram platform removed 37.8 percent. content (59 of 156).

According to the report, platforms most often removed reports regarding content impersonating institutions and famous people. 78.6 percent such materials have been removed.

In the case of reports of false information, the platforms removed 9.4 percent. reported materials. Content related to manipulation was the least frequently removed. Platforms removed only 4.9%. such reports.

Disinformation narratives

NASK also distinguished exemplary disinformation narratives occurring in the first half of this year. In the case of content manipulating and influencing social bases, publications about disinformation regarding the supply of generators to Ukraine, a pro-Iranian disinformation campaign, false narratives around the fire in the Solska Forest, as well as AI videos about cash withdrawals and AI profiles with allegedly Polish soldiers were distinguished.

The report also classified materials monetizing disinformation, such as accounts of AI-generated Ukrainian women with false marriage offers, fake experts selling supplements, and a campaign using the image of the president of the National Bank of Poland, Adam Glapiński.

NASK also intervened regarding content that created false credibility. This includes: about a Facebook group impersonating the tennis player Iga Świątek and the "Cracow City Guard" profile.

The Center for the Fight against Disinformation is starting to operate

Paweł Olszewski, Deputy Minister of Digitization, who was present during the presentation of the report, announced that the first meeting of the Center for Combating Disinformation (CWD) will be held on Wednesday. He announced that the first results of the team's work will be presented in a week - on October 28.

Olszewski reported that the Center "basically has a prepared framework for the fight against disinformation" in order to "face the large apparatus of Russian propaganda, manipulation and intervention in our minds." He announced that CWD will cooperate with representatives of the media, business and representatives of individual social groups.

Gawkowski, in turn, announced that "after completing the work of the Center for Combating Disinformation teams, a report will be prepared for the European Commission, which will provide information on which platforms operate for Russian disinformation in the Polish infosphere." He added that the conclusions from the Center's work will also be sent to digitalization ministers from other European countries.