Case study

New York Social Media Terms-of-Service Reports

New York's Stop Hiding Hate Act (S895B) requires social-media platforms with over $100 million in annual revenue and New York users to file twice-yearly terms-of-service reports with the state Attorney General. Each report describes how the platform defines and moderates hateful conduct, racism, extremism, disinformation, harassment, and foreign political interference.

This project scrapes the Attorney General's public index, archives each published filing, and builds a flat, citable catalogue covering all 29 filings for 2025 Q3 and Q4 — from Meta, Alphabet (YouTube), TikTok, X, Snap, Reddit, Discord, Roblox, LinkedIn, Amazon (Twitch & GoodReads), and more.

Source: NY Attorney General — Social Media ToS reporting. Archived files & catalogue: github.com/krMaynard/dsa-transparency-data.

Live tool

Browse the catalogue

The full catalogue is available on the Transparency Report API — a filterable table of every filing, with links to the report on the AG site and to an archived copy of the PDF, plus a public, read-only JSON/CSV endpoint.

Open catalogue → JSON API →

Reading the data

What these are. Narrative policy PDFs — each company's description of its terms of service and moderation practices — not the machine-readable statistical tables of the EU DSA reports. So they're archived as original PDFs, not parsed into a database.
Company vs. platform. Some companies file separately for individual platforms or brands — for example, Amazon files distinct reports for Twitch and GoodReads.
Period. The law mandates twice-yearly reporting; the catalogue covers 2025 Q3 and Q4.
Access. 11 of the 29 filings are served from the AG's public directory and are mirrored here as archived PDFs. The other 18 are served from a private upload directory that redirects anonymous visitors to a login page, so they're catalogued with their source link only (marked auth-required) — almost certainly a misconfiguration, since they're publicly listed.
Archived. Where a filing is public, a snapshot of the PDF is mirrored in the open-data repository in case the live link moves.

Data: New York Attorney General social-media terms-of-service filings, 2025 Q3–Q4. Archive & analysis by Kieran Maynard. No analytics or tracking beyond the site default.