This article compares the goals and outcomes of industry- and activist-led efforts that leverage advertisers to influence platform content moderation, and considers how these efforts fare as governments intervene more strongly in platform governance. It draws on contemporary documents and interviews to construct qualitative case studies of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, a content moderation focused initiative of the World Federation of Advertisers, and the Stop Hate for Profit advertiser boycott of Facebook.
Funding
This research was funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada [752-2018-2077]
History
Author affiliation
College of Social Sci Arts and Humanities
Arts, Media & Communication
Version
VoR (Version of Record)
Published in
Internet Policy Review
Volume
14
Issue
1
Publisher
Internet Policy Review, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society