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Electonic Frontier Foundation

From Ranking Digital Rights:

2020 Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index

Platform policy and governance

From Center for Democracy & Technology:

CDT Urges Oversight Board to Hold Political Leaders to Higher Standards on Incitement to Violence

Platform policy and governance

From Lawfare Blog:

The Lawfare Podcast: The Challenges of Audio Content Moderation

Platform policy and governance

From First Monday:

A corpo-civic space: A notion to address social media’s corporate/civic hybridity

Platform policy and governance

From OneZero:

How to Start Fixing Social Media

Platform policy and governance

From Tech Policy Press:

The Internet Beyond Social Media Thought-Robber Barons

Platform policy and governance

From Social Media Collective:

Content Moderation: A Reading List

Platform policy and governance

From Center for Democracy & Technology:

Do You See What I See? Capabilities and Limits of Automated Multimedia Content Analysis

Platform policy and governance

From Data & Society:

Content or Context Moderation? Artisanal, Community-Reliant, and Industrial Approaches

Platform policy and governance

From Connecticut Law Review:

Hate Speech on Social Media: Content Moderation in Context

Platform policy and governance

From Brookings TechStream:

How hate speech reveals the invisible politics of internet infrastructure

Platform policy and governance

From Brennan Center for Justice:

Double Standards in Social Media Content Moderation

Platform policy and governance

From Cambridge University Press:

Short of Suspension: How Suspension Warnings Can Reduce Hate Speech on Twitter

Platform policy and governance

From Center for Democracy & Technology:

Outside Looking In: Approaches to Content Moderation in End-to-End Encrypted Systems

Platform policy and governance

From TechDirt:

Infrastructure And Content Moderation: Challenges And Opportunities

Platform policy and governance

From Harvard Law Review:

The New Governors: The People, Rules, and Processes Governing Online Speech

Platform policy and governance

From The New Yorker:

Inside the Making of Facebook’s Supreme Court

Platform policy and governance

From Access Now:

Terrorist Content Regulation: the fight for fundamental rights isn’t over

EU Regulations

From Brookings TechTank:

Four lessons for US legislators from the EU Digital Services Act

EU Regulations

From The New Arab:

Twitter and India play tug-of-war with democracy

Global Perspectives

From Epicenter Works:

How Austria wants to implement upload filters and ancillary copyright

Global Perspectives

From Human Rights Watch:

Indonesia: Suspend, Revise New Internet Regulation

Global Perspectives

From Iowa Law Review:

Social Media as Contractual Networks: A Bottom up Check on Content Moderation

Global Perspectives

From POMEPS Studies 43: Digital Activism and Authoritarian Adaptation in the Middle East:

Digital Orientalism: #SaveSheikhJarrah and Arabic Content Moderation

Global Perspectives

From Information, Communication & Society:

The Stepping into Visibility Model: reflecting on consequences of social media visibility – a Global South perspective

Global Perspectives

From Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation:

Santa Clara Principles 2.0 Open Consultation Report

Global Perspectives

From Committee to Protect Journalists:

How social media regulation could affect the press

Global Perspectives

From The Verge:

Trans streamers are creating the visibility Twitch won’t give them

Sexuality and Gender

From New Media & Society:

Content moderation: Social media’s sexist assemblages

Sexuality and Gender

From The Link Newspaper:

Censorship and sex work: The realities of the modern-day sex worker

Sexuality and Gender

From Feminist Media Studies:

The Shadowban Cycle: an autoethnography of pole dancing, nudity and censorship on Instagram

Sexuality and Gender

From Porn Studies:

Sex in the Shadows of Celebrity

Sexuality and Gender

From Bits of Freedom:

Anonymity is Indispensable

Anonymity

From The Guardian:

Give Facebook our passport? It won’t fix the problem

Anonymity

From The Coral Project:

The Real Name Fallacy

Anonymity

From Columbia Journalism Review:

Why ending anonymity would not make social media better

Anonymity

From The Verge:

Twitter suspends Wordle-ruining bot

Platform policy and governance

From CJR:

Online censorship is growing in Modi’s India

Global Perspectives

From The Guardian:

Flood of Russian misinformation puts tech companies in the hot seat

Platform policy and governance Global Perspectives

From The Guardian:

Flood of Russian misinformation puts tech companies in the hot seat

Platform policy and governance Global Perspectives

From :

The Internet is a Force Multiplier for Ukraine

Platform policy and governance Global Perspectives

From :

The Internet is a Force Multiplier for Ukraine

Platform policy and governance Global Perspectives

From The Atlantic:

Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem

Platform policy and governance

From European Law Journal 2022 (forthcoming):

Taking Fundamental Rights Seriously in the Digital Services Act’s Platform Liability Regime

Platform policy and governance EU Regulations

From European Law Journal 2022 (forthcoming):

Taking Fundamental Rights Seriously in the Digital Services Act’s Platform Liability Regime

Platform policy and governance EU Regulations

From Mnemonic:

Oversight Board Case on Graphic Human Rights Documentation from Sudan Has Big Implications

Platform policy and governance Global Perspectives

From Mnemonic:

Oversight Board Case on Graphic Human Rights Documentation from Sudan Has Big Implications

Platform policy and governance Global Perspectives

From Tech Policy Press:

Evaluating Alternatives to Content Removal on Social Media Platforms

Platform policy and governance

From 28 Michigan Technology Law Review 1 (2021):

Content Moderation Remedies

Platform policy and governance

From The Intercept:

Facebook's Ukraine-Russia Moderation Rules Prompt Cries of Double Standard

Platform policy and governance Global Perspectives

From The Intercept:

Facebook's Ukraine-Russia Moderation Rules Prompt Cries of Double Standard

Platform policy and governance Global Perspectives

From forthcoming Harvard Law Review Vol. 136:

Content Moderation as Administration

Platform policy and governance

From Brookings TechStream:

Policy recommendations for addressing content moderation in podcasts

Platform policy and governance

From Center for Democracy & Technology:

Shedding Light on Shadowbanning

Platform policy and governance

From Ranking Digital Rights:

The 2022 Big Tech Scorecard

Platform policy and governance

From Amnesty International:

Meta’s Human Rights Report ignores the real threat the company poses to Human Rights worldwide

Global Perspectives Human Rights

From Amnesty International:

Meta’s Human Rights Report ignores the real threat the company poses to Human Rights worldwide

Global Perspectives Human Rights

From Lawfare Blog:

Modularity for International Internet Governance

Global Perspectives Platform policy and governance

From Lawfare Blog:

Modularity for International Internet Governance

Global Perspectives Platform policy and governance

From Article 19:

UN: Submission to Special Rapporteur on free expression and armed conflicts

Human Rights Global Perspectives

From Article 19:

UN: Submission to Special Rapporteur on free expression and armed conflicts

Human Rights Global Perspectives

From Stanford CIS:

What Does the DSA Say?

EU Regulations Platform policy and governance

From Stanford CIS:

What Does the DSA Say?

EU Regulations Platform policy and governance

From Scientific American:

A Proposed Antiabortion Law Infringes on Free Speech

US Regulations Reproductive Rights

From Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Indonesia’s New Draft Criminal Code Restrains Political Dissent

Global Perspectives

From Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Google’s Scans of Private Photos Led to False Accusations of Child Abuse

Platform policy and governance

From Brookings TechStream:

What the European DSA and DMA proposals mean for online platforms

Platform policy and governance Global Perspectives

From Brookings TechStream:

What the European DSA and DMA proposals mean for online platforms

Platform policy and governance Global Perspectives

From Tech Policy Press:

“Exhausting and Dangerous:” Is Election Disinformation a Priority for Platforms?

Platform policy and governance US Regulations

From Brookings TechStream:

Using ‘safety by design’ to address online harms

Global Perspectives US Regulations

From Reason:

Cloudflare Can Cancel Service to Terrible Websites Like Kiwi Farms. But Should It?

Platform policy and governance

From Moderated Content:

The Supreme Court Takes up Section 230

Platform policy and governance US Regulations

From Transatlantic Working Group:

FREEDOM and ACCOUNTABILITY A Transatlantic Framework for Moderating Speech Online [PDF]

Platform policy and governance EU Regulations

From Transatlantic Working Group:

FREEDOM and ACCOUNTABILITY A Transatlantic Framework for Moderating Speech Online [PDF]

Platform policy and governance EU Regulations

From TIME:

Elon Musk Is the Lord of Twitter. We Are the Peasants

Platform policy and governance Human Rights

From TIME:

Elon Musk Is the Lord of Twitter. We Are the Peasants

Platform policy and governance Human Rights

From Center for Democracy and Technology:

An Unrepresentative Democracy: How Disinformation and Online Abuse Hinder Women of Color Political Candidates in the United States

Platform policy and governance Sexuality & Gender

From Index on Censorship:

Government’s online harms white paper risk damaging freedom of expression in the UK

Sexuality & Gender Human Rights

From Article 19:

EU: Ensure effective enforcement of Digital Markets Act

Platform policy and governance Global Perspectives

From Article 19:

EU: Ensure effective enforcement of Digital Markets Act

Platform policy and governance Global Perspectives

From SMEX:

Meta Censored Palestinians Last May – Independent Audit Report Confirms

Platform policy and governance Global Perspectives

From SMEX:

Meta Censored Palestinians Last May – Independent Audit Report Confirms

Platform policy and governance Global Perspectives

From Context:

How Musk's Twitter takeover could endanger vulnerable users

Global Perspectives Human Rights

From Context:

How Musk's Twitter takeover could endanger vulnerable users

Global Perspectives Human Rights

From USA Today:

What is Mastodon? What to know about the decentralized site some see as a Twitter alternative

Platform policy and governance Fediverse

From USA Today:

What is Mastodon? What to know about the decentralized site some see as a Twitter alternative

Platform policy and governance Fediverse

From Tech Policy Press:

What Does Europe’s Digital Services Act Mean for Targeted Political Advertising in the U.S.?

Platform policy and governance EU Regulations

From Tech Policy Press:

What Does Europe’s Digital Services Act Mean for Targeted Political Advertising in the U.S.?

Platform policy and governance EU Regulations

From Tech Policy Press:

The Hidden Value of Prototyping for Policy Making in Tech and Beyond

Platform policy and governance

From Rest of World:

What’s next in the tech layoff saga?

Global Perspectives Labor

From Rest of World:

What’s next in the tech layoff saga?

Global Perspectives Labor

From Rest of World:

Global Twitter employees describe chaos as layoffs gut their teams

Global Perspectives Labor

From Rest of World:

Global Twitter employees describe chaos as layoffs gut their teams

Global Perspectives Labor

From Context:

Twitter, first consider Human Rights impacts

Platform policy and governance Human Rights

From Context:

Twitter, first consider Human Rights impacts

Platform policy and governance Human Rights

From Washington Post:

Censorship, arrests, power cuts. India scrambles to block BBC documentary.

Global Perspectives

From Software Freedom Law Centre:

Finding 404: A Report on Website Blocking in India

Global Perspectives

From Access Now:

#KeepItOn: Who is shutting down the internet in Ukraine?

Global Perspectives

From Reuters:

Meta urged to boost Africa content moderation as contractor quits

Global Perspectives Labor

From Reuters:

Meta urged to boost Africa content moderation as contractor quits

Global Perspectives Labor

From The Guardian:

Age checks, trolls and deepfakes: what’s in the online safety bill?

Global Perspectives

From Newsweek:

Social Media Giants Must Speak Out Against LGBTQ Persecution in Ghana

Global Perspectives Sexuality & Gender

From Radiolab:

Facebook's Supreme Court

Platform policy and governance

From Center for Democracy & Technology:

Report – Defending Data: Privacy Protection, Independent Researchers, and Access to Social Media Data in the US and EU

Platform policy and governance

From Tech Policy Press:

Right, Capacity and Will in Content Moderation: A Case for User Empowerment

Platform policy and governance