Eliška Pírková (Archived Bio)

In the European Union, a Regulation to address terrorism-related content is nearing the end of negotiation, but it still relies heavily on automated measures without sufficient transparency or accountability safeguards built in to protect Europeans’ fundamental rights.

We offer 26 recommendations on content governance to help lawmakers, regulators, and company leaders make decisions that will safeguard human rights.

Online platforms rank and moderate content without letting us know how and why they do it. We need more transparency.

Automation may be necessary for handling a vast amount of content shared by users, but the mistakes can be far-reaching for your rights and the well-being of society.

Despite widespread reporting that two recent rulings on the “right to be forgotten” represent a victory for Google and free expression, concerns remain about human rights and the power of private companies to decide how content is discovered online.

Broad and vague laws for “online harms” and increased reliance on automated filtering are not the right answers to tackling illegal content online.

Three cases in the European Union that involve Facebook have broad implications for intermediary regulation and the future free expression online. Eliska Pirkova explains.