Tangentially related - If you aren’t aware, there are out of court settlement bodies which exist as part of the DSA.

If you have content which is removed, or a moderation decision you wish to dispute, you can go to one of these bodies to get it reviewed. It cannot go to dev/null.

This doesn’t address whether flagging scams resulted in action. The bigger picture is the mismatched incentives for tech. Platforms are not quite incentivized to care about responding to user complaints, and do not give out information that lets us know what is happening independently.

To get to the point that complaints are actioned, those incentives need to be realigned. The ODS pathway, if used more frequently, increases that revenue and market pressure.

The ODS system is new, and I expect it will have tons of issues to discover. I wouldn’t be surprised it it is already weaponized.

On the flip side, platforms haven’t been tested or queried in this manner before.