User-Generated Content, Social Media Bias and Slant Regulation

Jun Hu (1)

1 UP2 - Université Panthéon-Assas

This paper examines the impact of government regulation in the media market. In a duopolistic market structure, the intervention of a state-owned media firm without bias will reduce the price of the print version of a newspaper, but will increase its digital subscription fee. Moreover, the government regulation will not necessarily reduce the media slanting. The User-Generated Content of a digital version of a newspaper, along with the media bias from both supply-side and the demand-side, make the government regulation much less effective.

Mots clés: Social Media; Media Bias; Spatial Model; Government Regulation; Media Industry

Domaines: Economies et finances

Jun Hu. User-Generated Content, Social Media Bias and Slant Regulation. 2021. ⟨hal-03120466v1⟩