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Digital Platforms: Responsibilities Then and Now (Fall 2019)

“Facebook v. Sullivan” by Thomas Kadri and Kate Klonick, Southern California Law Review (Forthcoming 2019). Read sections II and III.

This article argues that platforms must create institutions like the Supreme Court to provide transparent decisions and constant rationales, and must create constitution-like charters to guide the independent institutions that would oversee them. Should we seek the constitutionalization of social media platforms? Does the creation of independent institutions solve Facebook’s content moderation problems?