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

Mon Jun 11 23:43:52 GMT 2018




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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