Defeating Disinformation: Digital Platform Responsibility, Regulation and Content Moderation on the Global Technological Commons

Chakravorti, Bhaskar

ISBN 10: 1009438646 / ISBN 13: 9781009438643

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Defeating Disinformation: Digital Platform Responsibility, Regulation and Content Moderation on the Global Technological Commons
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009438646
• ISBN 13: 9781009438643
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Global platforms present novel challenges. They are powerful conduits of commerce and global community, and their potential to influence behavior is enormous. Defeating Disinformation explores how to balance free speech and dangerous online content to reduce societal risks of digital platforms. The volume offers an interdisciplinary approach, drawing upon insights from different geographies and parallel challenges of managing global phenomena with national policies and regulations. Chapters also examine the responsibility of platforms for their content, which is limited by national laws such as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in the US. This balance between national rules and the need for appropriate content moderation threatens to splinter platforms and reduce their utility across the globe. Timely and expansive, Defeating Disinformation develops a global approach to address these tensions while maintaining, and even enhancing, the social contribution of platforms. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

About the Authors

Bhaskar Chakravorti is the Dean of Global Business at The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University, the founding Executive Director of Fletcher's Institute for Business in the Global Context, and Chair of Digital Planet. He is Chairman of the Advisory Board of Mastercard's Policy Center for the Digital Economy and is a frequent commentator, author and speaker on the digital economy, AI and the impact on global inclusive growth.

Joel P. Trachtman is Professor of International Law and Henry Braker Professor of Commercial Law at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He is the author of ten books and over a hundred scholarly articles and chapters on international economic law. He is also a frequent media commentator on trade law issues.