Private Governance of Freedom of Expression on Social Media Platforms
<section class="abstract"><h2 class="abstractTitle text-title my-1" id="d4038e2">Abstract</h2><p>For years, social media platforms have been perceived as a democratic gain, facilitating freedom of expression, easy access to a variety of information, and new means of public participation. At the same time, social media have enabled the dissemination of illegal content and incitement to discrimination, hostility, or violence, fuelling several content regulation initiatives. From the perspective of freedom of expression, this development embraces two challenges: first, private actors govern freedom of expression, without human rights safeguards; second, this privatised governance of human rights is encouraged and legitimised by a broad range of EU policy initiatives. Informed by an analysis of Danish Facebook users’ attitudes toward public debate on Facebook, we pose the question: How do social media companies such as Facebook balance various human rights considerations on their platforms, particularly in rela
3 Mar 2020 ... For years, social media platforms such as Facebook have been perceived as ... Most recently, an Online Harms White Paper sets out the British ...