Hate Speech, Fake News and Content Regulation on Social Networks in Europe

Romain Badouard (1)

1 CARISM - Centre d'Analyse et de Recherche Interdisciplinaires sur les Médias

This chapter analyses the current controversies surrounding the regulation of online content—regarding migrants, but also beyond—showing how the reconfiguration of relations between actors in the information market influences the conditions for the exercise of freedom of expression on the Internet. It shows that the regulation of online public speech goes far beyond relations between States and platforms, and implies a great diversity of actors: the media rely on fact-checking and certification of information; activists engage in collective actions of counter-speech or practice the “name and shame” policy to fight extremist websites or manipulators; companies put on market solutions of “brand safety”, the Internet users engage in initiatives of “participatory vigilance”.

Mots clés: Fake news; Content regulation; Social networks; Internet governance; European Union; Law

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Sciences de l'information et de la communication; Science politique; Sociologie

Romain Badouard. Hate Speech, Fake News and Content Regulation on Social Networks in Europe. Angeliki Monnier; Axel Boursier; Annabelle Seoane. Cyberhate in the Context of Migrations, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.215-230, 2022, 978-3-030-92102-6. ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-92103-3_9⟩. ⟨hal-03926633⟩