Bluesky issues its first transparency report, noting rise in user reports and legal demands

Bluesky released its first transparency report this week documenting the actions taken by its Trust & Safety squad and the results of different initiatives, similar property assurance compliance, monitoring power operations, automated labeling, and more.

The societal media startup — a rival to X and Threads — grew astir 60% successful 2025, from 25.9 cardinal users to 41.2 million, which includes accounts hosted some connected Bluesky’s ain infrastructure and those moving their ain infrastructure arsenic portion of the decentralized societal web based connected Bluesky’s AT Protocol.

During the past year, users made 1.41 cardinal posts connected the platform, which represented 61% of each posts ever made connected Bluesky. Of those, 235 cardinal posts contained media, accounting for 62% of each media posts shared connected Bluesky to date.

The institution besides reported a fivefold summation successful ineligible requests from instrumentality enforcement agencies, authorities regulators, and ineligible representatives successful 2025, with 1,470 requests up from 2024’s 238 requests.

While the institution antecedently shared moderation reports successful 2023 and 2024, this is the archetypal clip it’s enactment unneurotic a broad transparency report. The caller study tackles different areas extracurricular of moderation, similar regulatory compliance and relationship verification information, among different things.

Moderation reports from users leap 54%

Compared with 2024, erstwhile Bluesky saw a 17-times increase successful moderation reports, the institution this twelvemonth reported a 54% increase, going from 6.48 cardinal idiosyncratic reports successful 2024 to 9.97 cardinal successful 2025.

Though the fig jumped, Bluesky noted that the maturation “closely tracked” its 57% idiosyncratic maturation that occurred implicit the aforesaid period.

Around 3% of the idiosyncratic base, oregon 1.24 cardinal users, submitted reports successful 2025, with the apical categories being “misleading” (which includes spam) astatine 43.73% of the total, “harassment” astatine 19.93%, and intersexual contented astatine 13.54%.

A catch-all “other” class included 22.14% of the reports that didn’t autumn nether these categories, oregon others similar violence, kid safety, breaking tract rules, oregon self-harm, which accounted for overmuch smaller percentages.

Within the “misleading” category’s 4.36 cardinal reports, spam accounted for 2.49 cardinal reports.

Meanwhile, hatred code accounted for the largest stock of the 1.99 cardinal “harassment” reports, with astir 55,400 reports. Other areas that saw enactment included targeted harassment (about 42,520 reports), trolling (29,500 reports), and doxxing (about 3,170 reports).

However, Bluesky said that the bulk of “harassment” reports included those that fell into the grey country of anti-social behavior, which whitethorn see rude remarks, but didn’t acceptable into the different categories, similar hatred speech.

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Most of the intersexual contented reports (1.52 million) acrophobic mislabeling, Bluesky says, meaning that big contented was not decently marked with metadata — tags that let users to power their ain moderation acquisition utilizing Bluesky’s tools.

A smaller fig of reports focused connected non-consensual intimate imagery (about 7,520), maltreatment contented (about 6,120), and deepfakes (over 2,000).

Reports focused connected unit (24,670 successful total) were breached down into sub-categories similar threats oregon incitement (about 10,170 reports), glorification of unit (6,630 reports), and extremist contented (3,230 reports).

In summation to idiosyncratic reports, Bluesky’s automated strategy flagged 2.54 cardinal imaginable violations.

One country wherever Bluesky reported occurrence progressive a diminution successful regular reports of anti-social behaviour connected the site, which dropped 79% aft the implementation of a strategy that identified toxic replies and reduced their visibility by putting them down an other click, akin to what X does.

Bluesky besides saw a driblet successful idiosyncratic reports month-over-month, with reports per 1,000 monthly progressive users declining 50.9% from January to December.

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Outside of moderation, Bluesky noted it removed 3,619 accounts for suspected power operations, astir apt those operating from Russia.

Increases successful takedowns, ineligible requests

The institution said past autumn it was getting much aggressive astir its moderation and enforcement, and that appears to beryllium true.

Last year, Bluesky took down 2.44 cardinal items successful 2025, including accounts and content. The twelvemonth prior, Bluesky had taken down 66,308 accounts, and its automated tooling took down 35,842 accounts.

Moderators besides took down 6,334 records, and automated systems removed 282.

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Bluesky besides issued 3,192 impermanent suspensions successful 2025, and 14,659 imperishable removals for prohibition evasion. Most of the imperishable suspensions were focused connected accounts engaging in inauthentic behavior, spam networks, and impersonation.

However, its study suggests that it prefers labeling contented much than it does booting retired users. Last year, Bluesky applied 16.49 cardinal labels to content, up 200% year-over-year, portion relationship takedown grew 104% from 1.02 cardinal to 2.08 million. Most of the labeling progressive big and suggestive contented oregon nudity.