The Yale Law Journal - Forum: Real Talk About Fake News: Towards a Better Theory for Platform Governance

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Summary:

Ultimately, ambiguity serves neither the platforms nor their users. To users, hazy platform philosophy obscures any meaningful understanding of how platforms decide what is acceptable. Many wondered, in the wake of a recent leak, why Facebook’s elaborate internal content moderation rules could justify deleting hate speech against white men, but allowed hate speech against black children to remain online.27 To platforms, philosophical indeterminacy over speech theories means there are few guiding stars to help navigate high-profile and rapidly evolving problems like fake news.

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https://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/real-talk-about-fake-news

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10/10/2017, 23:37

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10/10/2017, 11:00