CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Oleksandr Vasylenko |
|---|---|
| Title | Lessons from the Russian-Ukrainian war for Big Tech's moderation mechanisms: combating incitement to violence |
| Summary | The following thesis is dedicated to the topic of digital incitement to violence and aims to find ways of combating it by the actors of internet governance – states, social networks, social sector, and users. Through the use of doctrinal and interdisciplinary methodologies, the manner of social networks’ moderation activities is analyzed in the framework of hateful speech towards the Ukrainian population in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The focus is put on the jurisdictions and social networks, which are most actively triggered in the course of this war. Therefore, legislation of the EU, Ukraine, and Russia is scrutinized, as well as the actions of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and Telegram. The analysis of theories of internet governance and intermediary liability altogether with legislative provisions that regulate the sphere of incitement to violence’s prohibition allows for assessing the social networks’ modus operandi concerning the policing of this crime. Regarding the findings, the most fruitful way of counteraction to online hateful content is the cooperation of online content governance stakeholders to implement the mechanism of intermediary liability. The approaches of European legislators are the most prominent examples of such cooperation, which resulted in the social networks' greatest compliance in Europe. Although social networks have been taking steps to limit the presence of illegal incitements, it is still possible to find hateful content on each platform. Therefore, actors of internet governance should take proactive actions to combat online injustices in the course of the Russian-Ukrainian war and other possible scenarios. |
| Supervisor | Maria José Schmidt-Kessen |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/vasylenko_oleksandr.pdf |
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