Marda & Milan on Multistakeholder Perspectives on the Fake News Debate

Vidushi Marda (Article 19: Global Campaign for Free Expression) & Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam) have posted Wisdom of the Crowd: Multistakeholder Perspectives on the Fake News Debate on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: Social media platforms are increasingly accused of shaping public debate and engineering people’s behavior in ways that might undermine the democratic process. In order to vitalize a much-needed multistakeholder dialogue on corrective measures against the spread of false information, this project has undertaken a truncated multistakeholder consultation, addressing experts from academia, civil society, governments and the industry to assess diverging perspectives on institutional proposals, legislative responses, and self- regulation resolutions that have sprung up around the world. It also asks what new challenges platform moderation and related “fake news” issues pose to what might be called the “procedural…

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