Defeating Disinformation

Digital Platform Responsibility, Regulation and Content Moderation on the Global Technological Commons

Bhaskar Chakravorti, Joel P. Trachtman

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Law
• eBook ISBN:
  9781009438605
• Subtopic: Law Theory & Practice
• Index: Law

Global platforms present novel challenges. They are powerful conduits of commerce and global community, and their potential to influence behavior is enormous. Defeating Disinformation explores how to balance free speech and dangerous online content to reduce societal risks of digital platforms. The volume offers an interdisciplinary approach, drawing upon insights from different geographies and parallel challenges of managing global phenomena with national policies and regulations. Chapters also examine the responsibility of platforms for their content, which is limited by national laws such as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in the US. This balance between national rules and the need for appropriate content moderation threatens to splinter platforms and reduce their utility across the globe. Timely and expansive, Defeating Disinformation develops a global approach to address these tensions while maintaining, and even enhancing, the social contribution of platforms. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Imprints page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction: Comparative, Generative, and Synthetic Analysis of International Dimensions of Platform Responsibility
• 2 The United States’ Approach to ‘‘Platform’’ Regulation
• 3 Platform Responsibility in the European Union: From the E-Commerce Directive to the Digital Services Act
• 4 Platform Responsibility with Chinese Characteristics
• 5 Safe Harbor and Content Moderation Regulation in India
• 6 The Last Breaths of Brazil’s Marco Civil?
• 7 International Dimensions of Infectious Disease Control: Applications to Platform Responsibility
• 8 Platform Responsibility Reforms: Lessons from International Financial Regulation
• 9 The International Tax Regulatory Approach as a Model for Platform Content Moderation
• 10 Drawing Lessons from Efforts at Moderating Extremism
• 11 Policy Approaches to Defining and Enforcing Responsibilities for Online Platforms
• 12 Why Global Platform Governance Is a Sham
• 13 The Disinformation Paradox: Why Regulating Online Content at Home May Make Matters Worse in the World
• 14 Platform Responsibility: An International Legal Synthesis
• 15 Conclusion: The Future of Defeating Disinformation
• Index