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This paper examines recent developments in digital platform regulation, focusing on the European approach to mitigating systemic online risks affecting children. It presents an original empirical analysis of TikTok’s compliance […]
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Platform studies have been dominated by analytical and evaluative frameworks attuned to Silicon Valley techno-capitalism. This article joins a growing body of work that unsettles this universalizing orientation by reconstructing […]
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Amid continued public controversy and political debate about online speech governments and civil society have pushed social media platforms to increase transparency around how they regulate speech, through community guidelines […]
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This article introduces the concept of normative dislocation to explain how platform moderation during Brazil’s 2022 presidential elections failed to account for local histories of political violence. Drawing on a […]
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This study examines Meta’s enforcement of its political advertising policies across 16 European Union countries. Leveraging a comprehensive dataset provided by Meta under the European Digital Services Act, encompassing all […]
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Objectives To examine the early effect of a world first national policy (Social Media Minimum Age Act 2024, which established a national minimum age of 16 years for holding accounts […]
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Wikipedia is an essential source of information online, making the integrity of its content critical to the health of the information ecosystem. Yet few studies have examined how Wikipedia’s volunteer-driven […]
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Online platforms have become infrastructural to democratic life, yet their influence is often examined through narrow causal-effect models that overlook systemic socio-technical dynamics. This Forum contribution introduces the concept of […]
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The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) establishes, for the first time, a legal right for independent researchers to access platform data in the public interest. Once designated as Very Large […]
