Economic influence : Governments leverage various business incentives to convince Big Tech companies to accommodate their requests related to political content moderation. The authors asked senior platform representatives who deal (or previously dealt) with content moderation and curation about their respective companies’ core values and approaches to content moderation. Next, it details legal, economic, and political forms of coercive government influence on platforms’ political content moderation. The Digital-Political Environments of India and ThailandBoth India and Thailand display common conditions that are crucial for understanding types of government influence on content moderation. Government Influence on Content Moderation: A Three-Pronged TypologyLegal InfluenceGovernments and state agencies can enforce legal measures (including laws, executive rules, and regulations) to induce content moderation practices that are favorable to them, which this paper calls legal influence.

Source: Economic Times August 01, 2024 08:58 UTC