Further Readings
From The Guardian:
Age checks, trolls and deepfakes: what’s in the online safety bill?
January 31, 2023
Global Perspectives
From Fight for the Future:
Meta’s decision on Trump is a huge distraction from thoughtful debate about content moderation and how to address the harms of Big Tech
January 25, 2023
Platform policy and governance
From Center for Democracy & Technology:
Report – Defending Data: Privacy Protection, Independent Researchers, and Access to Social Media Data in the US and EU
January 25, 2023
Platform policy and governance
From Washington Post:
Censorship, arrests, power cuts. India scrambles to block BBC documentary.
January 25, 2023
Global Perspectives
From Reuters:
Meta urged to boost Africa content moderation as contractor quits
January 24, 2023
Global Perspectives
Labor
From Tech Policy Press:
Right, Capacity and Will in Content Moderation: A Case for User Empowerment
January 19, 2023
Platform policy and governance
Advanced From Software Freedom Law Centre:
Finding 404: A Report on Website Blocking in India
January 12, 2023
Global Perspectives
From Access Now:
#KeepItOn: Who is shutting down the internet in Ukraine?
December 15, 2022
Global Perspectives
Advanced From Tech Policy Press:
What Does Europe’s Digital Services Act Mean for Targeted Political Advertising in the U.S.?
November 18, 2022
Platform policy and governance
EU Regulations
From Context:
Twitter, first consider human rights impacts
November 17, 2022
Platform policy and governance
human rights
From USA Today:
What is Mastodon? What to know about the decentralized site some see as a Twitter alternative
November 16, 2022
Platform policy and governance
Fediverse
Basic From Rest of World:
What’s next in the tech layoff saga?
November 16, 2022
Global Perspectives
Labor
Basic From Context:
How Musk's Twitter takeover could endanger vulnerable users
November 11, 2022
Global Perspectives
human rights
From Rest of World:
Global Twitter employees describe chaos as layoffs gut their teams
November 09, 2022
Global Perspectives
Labor
Basic From Index on Censorship:
Government’s online harms white paper risk damaging freedom of expression in the UK
November 07, 2022
Sexuality & Gender
human rights
Basic From Article 19:
EU: Ensure effective enforcement of Digital Markets Act
November 07, 2022
Platform policy and governance
Global Perspectives
Basic From TIME:
Elon Musk Is the Lord of Twitter. We Are the Peasants
November 03, 2022
Platform policy and governance
human rights
Advanced From Center for Democracy and Technology:
An Unrepresentative Democracy: How Disinformation and Online Abuse Hinder Women of Color Political Candidates in the United States
October 27, 2022
Platform policy and governance
Sexuality & Gender
Advanced From Moderated Content:
The Supreme Court Takes up Section 230
October 13, 2022
Platform policy and governance
U.S. Regulations
Advanced From Transatlantic Working Group:
FREEDOM and ACCOUNTABILITY A Transatlantic Framework for Moderating Speech Online [PDF]
October 13, 2022
Platform policy and governance
EU Regulations
Advanced From TechDirt:
Everyone Seems To Be Getting The Story About PayPal And Its Supposed $2,500 Fines For Misinfo Wrong
October 11, 2022
Platform policy and governance
Basic From SMEX:
Meta Censored Palestinians Last May – Independent Audit Report Confirms
September 22, 2022
Platform policy and governance
Global Perspectives
Basic From Reason:
Cloudflare Can Cancel Service to Terrible Websites Like Kiwi Farms. But Should It?
September 09, 2022
Platform policy and governance
Basic From Tech Policy Press:
“Exhausting and Dangerous:” Is Election Disinformation a Priority for Platforms?
August 25, 2022
Platform policy and governance
U.S. Regulations
Basic From Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Indonesia’s New Draft Criminal Code Restrains Political Dissent
August 23, 2022
Global Perspectives
Basic From Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Google’s Scans of Private Photos Led to False Accusations of Child Abuse
August 22, 2022
Platform policy and governance
Basic From Business Insider:
A factory line of terrors: TikTok's African content moderators complain they were treated like robots, reviewing videos of suicide and animal cruelty for less than $3 an hour.
August 03, 2022
Global Perspectives
Labor
Advanced From Article 19:
UN: Submission to Special Rapporteur on free expression and armed conflicts
August 03, 2022
human rights
Global Perspectives
Basic From Scientific American:
A Proposed Antiabortion Law Infringes on Free Speech
August 03, 2022
U.S. Regulations
Reproductive Rights
Advanced From Stanford CIS:
What Does the DSA Say?
August 03, 2022
EU Regulations
Platform policy and governance
From Brookings TechStream:
Using ‘safety by design’ to address online harms
July 26, 2022
Global Perspectives
U.S. Regulations
Basic From Amnesty International:
Meta’s Human Rights Report ignores the real threat the company poses to human rights worldwide
July 22, 2022
Global Perspectives
human rights
Advanced From Lawfare Blog:
Modularity for International Internet Governance
July 19, 2022
Global Perspectives
Platform policy and governance
From Ranking Digital Rights:
The 2022 Big Tech Scorecard
May 01, 2022
Platform policy and governance
Advanced From Center for Democracy & Technology:
Shedding Light on Shadowbanning
April 26, 2022
Platform policy and governance
From Brookings TechStream:
Policy recommendations for addressing content moderation in podcasts
April 18, 2022
Platform policy and governance
From The Intercept:
Facebook's Ukraine-Russia Moderation Rules Prompt Cries of Double Standard
April 14, 2022
Platform policy and governance
Global Perspectives
Basic From Tech Policy Press:
Evaluating Alternatives to Content Removal on Social Media Platforms
April 13, 2022
Platform policy and governance
From Mnemonic:
Oversight Board Case on Graphic Human Rights Documentation from Sudan Has Big Implications
April 07, 2022
Platform policy and governance
Global Perspectives
Advanced From forthcoming Harvard Law Review Vol. 136:
Content Moderation as Administration
March 01, 2022
Platform policy and governance
From The Guardian:
Flood of Russian misinformation puts tech companies in the hot seat
March 01, 2022
Platform policy and governance
Global Perspectives
From :
The Internet is a Force Multiplier for Ukraine
March 01, 2022
Platform policy and governance
Global Perspectives
Advanced From 28 Michigan Technology Law Review 1 (2021):
Content Moderation Remedies
February 18, 2022
Platform policy and governance
From The Atlantic:
Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem
February 10, 2022
Platform policy and governance
Basic From Center for Democracy & Technology:
CDT Leads Broad Human Rights Coalition Urging Senate to Drop EARN IT Act
February 09, 2022
U.S. Regulations
Sexuality & Gender
Basic From The Verge:
Twitter suspends Wordle-ruining bot
January 22, 2022
Platform policy and governance
Basic From Lawfare Blog:
The Oversight Board Moment You Should’ve Been Waiting For: Facebook Responds to the First Set of Decisions
January 14, 2022
Platform policy and governance
Basic From Committee to Protect Journalists:
How social media regulation could affect the press
January 05, 2022
Global Perspectives
Basic From Axios:
The state tech policy battles that will rage in 2022
January 04, 2022
U.S. Regulations
Basic From The Atlantic:
America’s Favorite Flimsy Pretext for Limiting Free Speech
January 04, 2022
U.S. Regulations
Advanced From Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation:
Santa Clara Principles 2.0 Open Consultation Report
December 07, 2021
Global Perspectives
Basic From EDRi:
Two steps forward, one step back: DMA must do more to free people from digital walled gardens
November 23, 2021
EU Regulations
Advanced From Cambridge University Press:
Short of Suspension: How Suspension Warnings Can Reduce Hate Speech on Twitter
November 22, 2021
Platform policy and governance
Basic From Lawfare Blog:
The Lawfare Podcast: Finstas, Falsehoods and the First Amendment
October 14, 2021
U.S. Regulations
Basic From Access Now:
Terrorist Content Regulation: the fight for fundamental rights isn’t over
October 07, 2021
EU Regulations
Basic From TechDirt:
Infrastructure And Content Moderation: Challenges And Opportunities
October 04, 2021
Platform policy and governance
Basic From TechDirt:
Social Media Regulation In African Countries Will Require More Than International Human Rights Law
September 30, 2021
Global Perspectives
Advanced From 7amleh:
Hate Network Hate Speech on Social Media Platforms in the Palestinian Context and its Impact on their Digital Rights
September 30, 2021
Global Perspectives
Advanced From POMEPS Studies 43: Digital Activism and Authoritarian Adaptation in the Middle East:
Digital Orientalism: #SaveSheikhJarrah and Arabic Content Moderation
August 25, 2021
Global Perspectives
Advanced From Information, Communication & Society:
The Stepping into Visibility Model: reflecting on consequences of social media visibility – a Global South perspective
August 25, 2021
Global Perspectives
Basic From The Conversation:
To protect our privacy and free speech, Canada needs to overhaul its approach to regulating online harms
August 20, 2021
Global Perspectives
Advanced From Center for Democracy & Technology:
Outside Looking In: Approaches to Content Moderation in End-to-End Encrypted Systems
August 12, 2021
Platform policy and governance
Advanced From Brennan Center for Justice:
Double Standards in Social Media Content Moderation
August 04, 2021
Platform policy and governance
Basic From Human Rights Watch:
Indonesia: Suspend, Revise New Internet Regulation
May 21, 2021
Global Perspectives
Advanced From Center for Democracy & Technology:
Do You See What I See? Capabilities and Limits of Automated Multimedia Content Analysis
May 20, 2021
Platform policy and governance
Basic From Rest of World:
New laws requiring social media platforms to hire local staff could endanger employees
May 14, 2021
Global Perspectives
Basic From Brookings TechStream:
US and EU tech strategy aren’t as aligned as you think
May 12, 2021
U.S. Regulations
Advanced From Feminist Media Studies:
The Shadowban Cycle: an autoethnography of pole dancing, nudity and censorship on Instagram
May 05, 2021
Sexuality & Gender
Basic From The Guardian:
Give Facebook our passport? It won’t fix the problem
April 25, 2021
Anonymity
Basic From Lawfare Blog:
The Lawfare Podcast: The Challenges of Audio Content Moderation
April 22, 2021
Platform policy and governance
Basic From Access Now:
Regulating online platforms: how EU Member States are undermining the Digital Services Act
April 22, 2021
EU Regulations
Advanced From Tech Policy Press:
The Internet Beyond Social Media Thought-Robber Barons
April 22, 2021
Platform policy and governance
Basic From The Verge:
Trans streamers are creating the visibility Twitch won’t give them
April 21, 2021
Sexuality & Gender
Basic From Brookings TechStream:
A guide for conceptualizing the debate over Section 230
April 09, 2021
U.S. Regulations
Advanced From Congressional Research Service:
Section 230: An Overview
April 07, 2021
U.S. Regulations
Advanced From Iowa Law Review:
Social Media as Contractual Networks: A Bottom up Check on Content Moderation
April 03, 2021
Global Perspectives
Advanced From European Law Journal 2022 (forthcoming):
Taking Fundamental Rights Seriously in the Digital Services Act’s Platform Liability Regime
March 22, 2021
Platform policy and governance
EU Regulations
Basic From Epicenter Works:
How Austria wants to implement upload filters and ancillary copyright
March 22, 2021
Global Perspectives
From TIME:
India's New Internet Rules Are a Step Toward 'Digital Authoritarianism,' Activists Say. Here's What They Will Mean
March 12, 2021
Global Perspectives
Basic From The Link Newspaper:
Censorship and sex work: The realities of the modern-day sex worker
March 10, 2021
Sexuality & Gender
Basic From The Guardian:
Australia: Fears online safety law could censor all adult content and force sex workers off internet
March 01, 2021
Sexuality & Gender
Basic From Center for Democracy & Technology:
Section 230 and Competition Policy are Inextricably Intertwined
February 26, 2021
U.S. Regulations
Basic From The New Arab:
Twitter and India play tug-of-war with democracy
February 25, 2021
Global Perspectives
Basic From The New Yorker:
Inside the Making of Facebook’s Supreme Court
February 12, 2021
Platform policy and governance
Basic From Center for Democracy & Technology:
CDT Urges Oversight Board to Hold Political Leaders to Higher Standards on Incitement to Violence
February 11, 2021
Platform policy and governance
Basic From Columbia Journalism Review:
Why ending anonymity would not make social media better
February 04, 2021
Anonymity
From Brookings TechStream:
What the European DSA and DMA proposals mean for online platforms
January 14, 2021
Platform policy and governance
Global Perspectives
Basic From Brookings TechTank:
Four lessons for U.S. legislators from the EU Digital Services Act
January 06, 2021
EU Regulations
Advanced From Sexuality & Culture Journal:
Fighting Hate Speech, Silencing Drag Queens? Artificial Intelligence in Content Moderation and Risks to LGBTQ Voices Online
November 06, 2020
Sexuality & Gender
Advanced From Connecticut Law Review:
Hate Speech on Social Media: Content Moderation in Context
September 14, 2020
Platform policy and governance
Basic From Brookings TechStream:
How hate speech reveals the invisible politics of internet infrastructure
August 20, 2020
Platform policy and governance
Advanced From New Media & Society:
Content moderation: Social media’s sexist assemblages
July 22, 2020
Sexuality & Gender
Basic From Ranking Digital Rights:
2020 Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index
June 14, 2020
Platform policy and governance
Advanced From First Monday:
A corpo-civic space: A notion to address social media’s corporate/civic hybridity
May 20, 2020
Platform policy and governance
Basic From OneZero:
How to Start Fixing Social Media
January 06, 2020
Platform policy and governance
Basic From Justitia:
The Digital Berlin Wall: How Germany (Accidentally) Created a Prototype for Global Online Censorship
November 14, 2019
EU Regulations
Advanced From Social Media Collective:
Content Moderation: A Reading List
October 01, 2019
Platform policy and governance
Basic From Internet Lab:
Drag queens and Artificial Intelligence: should computers decide what is ‘toxic’ on the internet?
June 28, 2019
Sexuality & Gender
Advanced From The Oxford Handbook of Online Intermediary Liability:
Lawfare Blog An Overview of the United States’ Section 230 Internet Immunity
January 09, 2019
U.S. Regulations
Basic From Data & Society:
Content or Context Moderation? Artisanal, Community-Reliant, and Industrial Approaches
November 14, 2018
Platform policy and governance
Advanced From Harvard Law Review:
The New Governors: The People, Rules, and Processes Governing Online Speech
April 10, 2018
Platform policy and governance
Advanced From Internet Histories:
From usernames to profiles: the development of pseudonymity in Internet communication
April 04, 2017
Anonymity
Social Media Giants Must Speak Out Against LGBTQ Persecution in Ghana