Co-producing Security: Platform Content Moderation and European Security Integration

Rocco Bellanova; Marieke De Goede

doi:10.1111/jcms.13306

Co-producing Security: Platform Content Moderation and European Security Integration

Rocco Bellanova
, Marieke De Goede

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The European Union (EU) seeks to play a leading role in steering the private work of online content moderation, as demonstrated by numerous policy and legislative initiatives in the domain. Two initiatives, in particular, are shaping terrorist content moderation: the creation of a EU Internet Referral Unit and the adoption of a Regulation on preventing the online dissemination of terrorist content (TERREG). This article analyses these initiatives and their practical effects. In particular, it unpacks the legal and technological mechanisms at the core of EU regulation in the realm of online terrorist content moderation, and how they co-produce security decisions across public and private spheres. Based on interviews, fieldwork observations and document analysis, we show how processes of referral and removal, and processes of flagging and filtering are key to EU-directed content moderation. In conclusion, we reflect on content moderation as a novel form of European security integration.

Originele taal-2	English
Pagina's (van-tot)	1316-1334
Aantal pagina's	19
Tijdschrift	Journal of Common Market Studies
Volume	60
Nummer van het tijdschrift	5
DOI's	https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13306
Status	Published - sep. 2022

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This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's H2020 research and innovation program (research project “FOLLOW: Following the Money from Transaction to Trial”, Grant No. ERC‐2015‐CoG 682317) as well as from the Universiteit van Amsterdam Research Priority Area Global Digital Cultures (research project “Digital Platforms and the Digitisation of Expression and Surveillance”).

Funding Information:
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's H2020 research and innovation program (research project “FOLLOW: Following the Money from Transaction to Trial”, Grant No. ERC-2015-CoG 682317) as well as from the Universiteit van Amsterdam Research Priority Area Global Digital Cultures (research project “Digital Platforms and the Digitisation of Expression and Surveillance”). We would like to thank Toni Haastrup and two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions, as well as all interviewees for their time and insights. Many thanks to Marie Irmer for her precious research assistance, and to the FOLLOW research team for providing feedback on an earlier version of this paper.

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© 2021 The Authors. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies published by University Association for Contemporary European Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Copyright 2022 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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1 Hosting an academic visitor
1 Talk or presentation at a conference
1 Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar

Eric Repetto
Bellanova, R. (Host)
2 sep. 2024 → 31 dec. 2024
Activiteit: Hosting an academic visitor
Invited speaker at the international academic workshop '(A right to) justice in times of the expansion of joint public-private powers,' organised at Tilburg University (the Netherlands).
Bellanova, R. (Invited speaker)
19 jan. 2024
Activiteit: Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
"The Security Politics of Editing. European data practices." Invited lecture in an international academic workshop on 'Disappearance,' organised by the ERC project DALOSS (University of Copenhagen) and the Royal Danish Library (Denmark).
Bellanova, R. (Invited speaker)
11 dec. 2024
Activiteit: Talk or presentation at a conference

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Eric Repetto

Invited speaker at the international academic workshop '(A right to) justice in times of the expansion of joint public-private powers,' organised at Tilburg University (the Netherlands).

"The Security Politics of Editing. European data practices." Invited lecture in an international academic workshop on 'Disappearance,' organised by the ERC project DALOSS (University of Copenhagen) and the Royal Danish Library (Denmark).

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