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Digital Platforms: Responsibilities Then and Now (Fall 2019)

“Online networks of eating-disorder websites” by Antonio Casilli et al., Perspectives in Public Health (2013).

Within the framework of public health, platforms are encouraged to remove content that poses a harm to users even when the users themselves seek it out. What do we do when it turns out that removing harmful content may further endanger users and that platforms’ policies contribute to these harms?