[ecrea] white paper on online content regulation and fake news

we are happy to announce the publication of a white paper on online 
content regulation, taking fake news as a case study.  Written with 
civil society organisations and policy-makers in mind and entitled 
“Wisdom of the Crowd: Multistakeholder perspective on the fake news 
debate”, the paper takes stock of the corrective measures adopted to 
date in the attempt to address the spread of fake news and its 
consequences. It includes a jurisdictional analysis of three large 
democracies (Brazil, India, Germany), and questions the procedural 
fitness of the multistakeholder model in the age of platforms. A short 
abstract is apprehended. The research has been made possible by the 
Joint Digital Rights and Internet Freedom Research/ Advocacy Projects 
call 2017, Internet Policy Observatory of the Annenberg School of 
Communication, University of Pennsylvania. We believe its digestible 
language and short format makes it good teaching material, too.

You can download the white paper here: 
http://globalnetpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Fake-News-Report_Final.pdf. 
Please feel free to share it with anyone who might be interested.
All the best, Stefania Milan and Vidushi Marda

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Abstract
Social media platforms are increasingly accused of shaping public debate 
and engineering people’s behavior in ways that might undermine the 
democratic process. In order to vitalize a much-needed multistakeholder 
dialogue on corrective measures against the spread of false information, 
this project has undertaken a truncated multistakeholder consultation, 
addressing experts from academia, civil society, governments and the 
industry to assess diverging perspectives on institutional proposals, 
legislative responses, and self- regulation resolutions that have sprung 
up around the world. It also asks what new challenges platform 
moderation and related “fake news” issues pose to what might be called 
the “procedural fitness” of the current multistakeholder internet 
governance system. Finally, it suggests recommendations for 
architectural changes that could promote constructive and inclusive 
debate on the topic.


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