ABSTRACT After many years of much-criticized opacity in the field of content moderation, social media platforms are now opening up to a dialogue with users and policymakers. Until now, liability frameworks in the United States and in the European Union (EU) have set incentives for platforms not to monitor user-generated content—an increasingly contested model that has led to (inter alia) practices and policies of noncontainment. Following discussions on platform power over online speech and how contentious content benefits the attention economy, there is an observable shift toward stricter content moderation duties in addition to more responsibility with regard to content. Nevertheless, much remains unsolved: the legitimacy of platforms' content moderation rules and decisions is still questioned. The platforms' power over the vast majority of communication in the digital sphere is still difficult to grasp because of its nature as private, yet often perceived as public. To address this issue, we use a governance structure perspective to identify potential regulatory advantages of establishing cross-platform external bodies for content moderation, ultimately aiming at providing insights about the opportunities and limitations of such a model.

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胜任第三方与平台内容​​审核：治理结构视角下独立决策机构的潜力

摘要 在内容审核领域多年来备受批评的不透明性之后，社交媒体平台现在开始与用户和政策制定者进行对话。到目前为止，美国和欧盟 (EU) 的责任框架已经为平台设置了不监控用户生成内容的激励机制——这是一种越来越有争议的模式，导致了（除其他外）非遏制的做法和政策。在讨论了平台对在线言论的权力以及有争议的内容如何有利于注意力经济之后，除了内容方面的更多责任外，还有一个明显的转变，即向更严格的内容审核职责转变。尽管如此，仍有许多问题未解决：平台内容审核规则和决策的合法性仍然受到质疑。平台' 数字领域绝大多数通信的权力仍然难以掌握，因为它的性质是私人的，但通常被认为是公共的。为了解决这个问题，我们使用治理结构的视角来确定建立跨平台外部机构进行内容审核的潜在监管优势，最终旨在提供有关这种模式的机会和局限性的见解。