Paper Discussion: The Regulation of Digital Infrastructures for Politics: The Forms and Edges of Facebook’s Content Moderation in Brazil

The Edinburgh Centre for Legal Theory presents

Paper Discussion: The Regulation of Digital Infrastructures for Politics: The Forms and Edges of Facebook’s Content Moderation in Brazil

 

Speakers: Deval Desai, Florian Hoffmann (PUC-Rio), and Anna Leander (Graduate Institute, Geneva)

 

Abstract:

In this paper, we explore Facebook’s content moderation of political speech in a Global South case study – Brazil. Facebook has been used by a range of political actors to target and influence particular voter groups. And its content moderation has been seen as partial and ineffective by both sides. We ask how Facebook’s content moderation has travelled to and through the Brazilian political context, and with what normative and political effects. Overall, the Facebook case evokes far more general concerns about how political information is governed (and with what consequences), and more broadly the structuring of democratic politics through the regulation of digital platforms.

 

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