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Abstract
The Essay is part of a Symposium on Tom Ginsburg’s insightful book Democracies and International Law. It explores one particular kind of interaction between democratic nation states and international instruments and institutions: how international law and institutions either mitigate or exacerbate harms to democracy from the diffusion of misinformation and hate speech on social-media platforms. I identify three distinct pathways not covered by Ginsburg: (a) international law as an off-the-rack legal regime for content-moderation by such platforms; (b) international contouring of feasible domestic regulation; and (c) ex ante and ex post international regulation of platform-mediated misinformation. Reflection upon these pathways confirms some of Ginsburg’s insights, but also complicates other parts of his analysis.
Recommended Citation
Huq, Aziz Z.
(2022)
"International Institutions and Platform-Mediated Misinformation,"
Chicago Journal of International Law:
Vol. 23:
No.
1, Article 8.
Available at:
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cjil/vol23/iss1/8