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Transparency Report Update: July – December 2025
The 25th edition of our biannual transparency report, covering the period from July through December 2025 is now available. The work of Automattic’s Trust & Safety team is grounded in key principles meant to prioritize an open, safe internet, and protect free expression while ensuring users can exercise their rights under frameworks such as the…
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Transparency Report Update: January – June 2025
The Automattic Trust and Safety team’s vision is to maintain safety while democratizing publishing. Earlier this year, we established five pillars that underpin our intent: user rights, safety by design, sustainability, empowerment, and transparency. An open web must be an accountable web! In our transparency report, we look through the lens of two pillars in…
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Transparency Report Update: July–December 2024
Automattic’s 23rd biannual transparency report is now available, covering the period from July through December 2024. This report dives into the intersection of tech and intellectual property, user privacy, government takedowns, content moderation, and much more. The Challenge of Mass Takedown Spam: Balancing Protection & Open Platforms At Automattic, we believe that the internet thrives…
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Transparency Report Update: January–June 2024
We’re pleased to present Automattic’s 22nd biannual transparency report. In its (virtual) pages, you’ll find many categories you’ve seen in previous editions: government removal and information requests, intellectual property statistics, and privacy reports. However, as part of our compliance with the Digital Services Act, this report—which covers the period of January through June 2024—will also…
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Transparency Report Update: July – December 2023
Our latest Transparency Report is out, covering July 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023. As in past reports, you’ll find information about the types and volumes of government requests that we received across Automattic’s services. Since 2013, we have published bi-annual Transparency Reports providing the public with robust insights into the types of complaints, takedown…
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Transparency Report Update: January – June 2023
The time has come to share the latest transparency report for WordPress.com and Tumblr, covering the period of January 1, 2023 – June 30, 2023. In this, we provide details of the various types of requests that we get from governments, including those that ask for user information, as well as content removal. Additionally, we…
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Transparency Report Update: July – December 2022
The latest update to our bi-annual transparency report, covering the period of July-December 2022, is now available. In it, we are sharing data about government information requests as well as government takedown demands. We’re also including information on data access and removal requests we receive, and notices of copyright and trademark infringement. Privacy Reports User…
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Transparency Report Update: January – June 2022
The latest update to our bi-annual transparency report is now available. In there you will find all of the usual details about the kinds and volume of both information requests and takedown demands that we receive across Automattic’s services. Below we have picked out a number of specific examples, to highlight some of the issues…
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Transparency Report Update: July – December 2021
We’re back again to unveil Automattic’s latest transparency report covering the period between July 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021. Across both WordPress.com and Tumblr, we’re publishing data about government requests for user information, government demands for removal of content, as well as national security requests and notices of copyright and trademark infringement. During the…
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Transparency Report Update: January – June 2021
Today we’re rolling out Automattic’s most recent transparency report which covers January 1, 2021 – June 30, 2021. As in past reports, we’re sharing data about national security requests, government requests for user information, government demands for content removal, as well as notices of copyright and trademark infringement. We’re committed to transparency and we’ve continued…
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Transparency Report Update: July – December 2020
It’s time once again for the bi-annual update to Automattic’s transparency report covering the period from July 1, 2020 – December 31, 2020. As ever, we’re providing details about government requests for user information as well as government demands for content removal. We’re also providing information on intellectual property disputes such as DMCA takedown notices…
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Transparency Report Update: January – June 2020
Today, we present our update to the Automattic Transparency Report. This most recent data covers the first six months of 2020, from January 1, 2020 – June 30, 2020. Please read through the report here. In addition to our full report, we’re making a CSV file of our data available for the first time. Those…
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Transparency Report Update: July – December 2017
Today we invite you to read our bi-annual update to the Automattic transparency report, covering the period from July 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017. Read through to find details on the number of information requests and takedown demands we received from governments, as well as from intellectual property rights holders under the DMCA. Our…
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Transparency Report Update: January – June 2017
The time has come for the bi-annual update to our transparency report, covering January 1 to June 30, 2017. As usual, we’ve shared updated data about national security requests, government requests for user information, government demands for removal of content, as well as notices of copyright and trademark infringement. We’ve included some of the most…
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Transparency Report Update: July–December 2016. Consistency is Key.
Today we launch our seventh bi-annual transparency report, covering the period between July 1 and December 31, 2016. As usual, we detail the number of takedown demands and requests for information received from governments, as well as the intellectual property (IP) takedown notices we have received. Having published these reports for a number of years now,…
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Transparency Report Update and a Closer Look at Turkey
Our latest transparency report is hot off the press, complete with data and details about the intellectual property infringement notices, government takedown demands, and government requests for information we received between July 1 and December 31, 2015. You can view our updated report here. Taking a closer look at the numbers, you may notice that…
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Transparency Report Update
We’re pleased to release the latest update to our transparency report, covering the period of January 1 – June 30, 2015. We try to make each new transparency report more…transparent, by adding new and more detailed information about the legal demands we receive, our responses to them, and the internal policies that guide our actions.…
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Transparency Report Update
We’re pleased to release our second, biannual transparency report and even more excited to announce a few new additions to the report. In addition to updates to the data we provided on user information requests and government takedown demands in our inaugural report, our latest report includes: Data about the intellectual property related complaints we…
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Welcome to our Transparency Report
Automattic’s mission is to democratize publishing, and a fully informed citizenry is the foundation of any functioning democracy. We’ve always aimed to keep our users and the public fully informed about our policies for responding to government requests – and now, more than ever, candor in this area is vitally important. In keeping with these…
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