Content Governance Dilemma, The

This open access book is one of the first academic works to comprehensively analyse the dilemma concerning global content governance on social media To date no single human rights standard exists across all social media platforms allowing private companies to set their own rules values and parameters On the one hand this normative autonomy raises serious concerns primarily around whether companies should be permitted to establish the rules governing free speech online On the other hand if social media platforms simply adopted international law standards they would be compelled to operate a choice on which model to follow and put in place mechanisms to uphold these general standards This book examines this topic from a multidisciplinary perspective drawing from the expertise of the authors in law political science and communication studies It provides a carefully reconstructed theory of the content governance dilemma as well as pragmatic solutions for companies and policymakers In this way the book not only benefits academics by advancing the debate on content moderation issues but also informs new policies and regulatory strategies by offering an uptodate overview of rules and tools for content moderation as well as an evaluation of their current level of compliance with standards emerged in international human rights law and digital constitutionalism initiatives