Methodology · compiled 15 August 2026

What this tracker can see

Compiled from public algorithm source, X’s transparency tables, and named court or regulator files. 97,006 removal requests in July–December 2024, 81.9% actioned. Individual withheld posts are still not in any public catalog.

In public

  • Open-source algorithm filters

    Government-required ranking filters shipped in xai-org/x-algorithm. Today that is one filter: Brazil2026ElectionFilter.

  • Named legal menus

    Where X or a regulator published the actual category list — Japan’s 96/4 demand split and IDPA window; the UK’s 19 illegal + 7 child-only duties — those names are on the country page.

  • Named court and agency files

    Public judgments, petitions, regulator findings, and bills that would create takedown powers — compiled per country, with the last public date on each card.

  • Aggregate government demands

    X Transparency Reports publish removal and information-request volume by country or region, plus action rates.

  • National access blocks

    Some governments block the entire service at the network layer. That is visible from outside the platform.

Still invisible

  • A public list of every withheld post

    Individual country withholdings only show a notice when the post is opened from that jurisdiction. There is still no single public catalog of those posts.

  • Exact live account lists beyond the filter file

    The Brazil filter publishes obfuscated user ids plus handles. Other withholdings are not enumerated in the algorithm repo.

  • Per-country EU and “all others” splits

    The latest global report rolls the EU into one row and lumps most remaining countries into “All others.”

Primary sources

Background, not a citation

Useful as a timeline index. Not a primary source for any row in this atlas.

Censorship of X (encyclopedia)National-block timeline. Use the court or agency record before this page.