News and Research articles on Civil society organisations

Despite their active and growing involvement in monitoring the implementation of the “Code of Conduct on countering illegal hate speech online”, civil society organisations have been barred from translating this expanded role into enhanced influence at the policy-making level.

Platform governance and civil society organisations: Tensions between reform and revolution continuum

Eugenia Siapera, University College Dublin
Elizabeth Farries, University College Dublin
PUBLISHED ON: 31 Mar 2025 DOI: 10.14763/2025.1.2002

Ideological differences, financial precarity, and tensions within the milieu of digital rights civil society organisations involved in platform governance advocacy can undermine these organisations’ ability to advocate for reform at all, let alone engage in a radical redefinition of the terms under which (platform) governance takes place.