Regulating disinformation on Twitter and Facebook

The spread of disinformation in recent years has caused the international community concerns, particularly around its impact on electoral and public health outcomes. When one considers how disinformation can be contained, one often looks to new laws imposing more accountability on prominent social m...

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Main Author: Tan, Corinne
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1656372023-05-19T07:31:17Z Regulating disinformation on Twitter and Facebook Tan, Corinne Nanyang Business School Business::Law Fake News Social Media The spread of disinformation in recent years has caused the international community concerns, particularly around its impact on electoral and public health outcomes. When one considers how disinformation can be contained, one often looks to new laws imposing more accountability on prominent social media platforms. While this narrative may be consistent with the fact that the problem of disinformation is exacerbated on social media platforms, it obscures the fact that individual users hold more power than is acknowledged and that shaping user norms should be accorded high priority in the fight against disinformation. In this article, I examine selected legislation implemented to regulate the spread of disinformation online. I also scrutinise two selected social media platforms–Twitter and Facebook–to anchor my discussion. In doing so, I consider what these platforms have done to self and co-regulate. Thereafter, I consider the limitations on regulation posed by certain behavioural norms of users. I argue that shaping user norms lie at the heart of the regulatory approaches discussed and is pivotal to regulating disinformation effectively. Ministry of Education (MOE) Published version The research undertaken for this article is funded by a Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 1 grant [number RS07/20]. 2023-04-05T05:34:49Z 2023-04-05T05:34:49Z 2022 Journal Article Tan, C. (2022). Regulating disinformation on Twitter and Facebook. Griffith Law Review, 31(4), 513-536. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10383441.2022.2138140 1038-3441 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165637 10.1080/10383441.2022.2138140 2-s2.0-85141153255 4 31 513 536 en RS07/20 Griffith Law Review © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. application/pdf
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Fake News
Social Media
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Fake News
Social Media
Tan, Corinne
Regulating disinformation on Twitter and Facebook
description The spread of disinformation in recent years has caused the international community concerns, particularly around its impact on electoral and public health outcomes. When one considers how disinformation can be contained, one often looks to new laws imposing more accountability on prominent social media platforms. While this narrative may be consistent with the fact that the problem of disinformation is exacerbated on social media platforms, it obscures the fact that individual users hold more power than is acknowledged and that shaping user norms should be accorded high priority in the fight against disinformation. In this article, I examine selected legislation implemented to regulate the spread of disinformation online. I also scrutinise two selected social media platforms–Twitter and Facebook–to anchor my discussion. In doing so, I consider what these platforms have done to self and co-regulate. Thereafter, I consider the limitations on regulation posed by certain behavioural norms of users. I argue that shaping user norms lie at the heart of the regulatory approaches discussed and is pivotal to regulating disinformation effectively.
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