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This paper examines data and privacy governance by four China-based mobile applications and their international versions - including the role of the state. It also highlights the role of platforms in gatekeeping mobile app privacy standards.

This paper uses qualitative content analysis to determine what type of socio-legal order the Silk Road is, to see whether platforms like the Silk Road indeed have the revolutionary potential proclaimed by some crypto communities.

Can platforms delete whatever content they want? Not everywhere, say the authors of this paper, which shows why certain social networks ‘must carry’ some content – and how users in some jurisdictions can force the companies to allow them into their communicative space.

Will the same cross-device technologies that track our journeys through the commercial marketplace now follow us into the polling booth?

Is the “European approach” an adequate response to the challenges of disinformation and political manipulation, especially in election periods?

Personalised political messaging undermines voter autonomy and the electoral process. Use of voter analytics for political communication must be regulated.

This paper shows how platforms are transient in the policies, procedures, and affordances and details the implications for politics.

Ad archives are a novel tool in online advertising governance. They promise significant benefits, but only if their operators address key criticisms.

Why did China’s Alibaba platform reform its enforcement practices in line with demands from the US government and US companies?

What are the informal arrangements governing online content on platforms in Europe, and what are the factors that make them more or less successful?

The German Network Enforcement Act is an attempt to counteract the effects of hate speech on social media platforms. This paper analyses and evaluates the reports on the handling of complaints about unlawful content after its coming into force.

This paper compares two controversies in social media governance and argues that social media companies’ actions indicate an expanded role for marketing and advertising as arbiters of the public interest in media content delivery.

The countering of terrorism propaganda online, through private companies, may little by little kill our right to freedom of expression.

This paper analyses social media blocking in Brazil, as a consequence of "regulatory disruption".

This paper analyses the selection, dissemination, and framing of media messages in day-to-day politics topic communities on Twitter