News and Research articles on Platform governanceSome platforms become systemically relevant in a crisis, so we need regulation that takes this into account before and during the next crisis.
Since Twitter labelled a tweet by Donald Trump as ‘potentially misleading’ and indicated that it was fact-checking the statement made, the US President signed an ‘Executive Order'. Amélie Heldt finds that far from being new, the situation illustrates how torn we are when it comes to intermediary immunity or rather liability.
Will this crisis finally change how social media make editorial decisions?
This special issue brings together the best policy-oriented papers presented at the 2018 Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference in Montréal, Canada.
What are the informal arrangements governing online content on platforms in Europe, and what are the factors that make them more or less successful?