Facebook is a new breed of editor: a social editor

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Publication date 15-09-2016
Publisher London: LSE
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  • Faculty of Law (FdR) - Institute for Information Law (IViR)
  • Faculty of Law (FdR)
Abstract Facebook’s approach to allowing, censoring or prioritising content that appears in the news feed has recently been the focus of much attention, both media and governmental. Professor Natali Helberger of the Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam argues that we need to seek to understand the new kind of editorial role that Facebook is playing, in order to know how to tackle the questions it raises.
Document type Web publication or website
Note Media@LSE blog contribution
Language English
Published at https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2016/09/15/facebook-is-a-new-breed-of-editor-a-social-editor/
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