Before and After Disinformation: The Normative Framework for Platform Regulation in Brazil – Seminar recording

The responsibilities of online platforms, competition and antitrust rules, the fight against illegal content and disinformation online are at the top of the European Union’s agenda. In the much anticipated Digital Services Package, the European Commission proposes new rules that will profoundly reshape the future rulebook of internet platforms on these major issues.

The Digital Services Act (DSA) Seminar Series offers an academic perspective on these developments, to unpack the complex underlying issues of this legislative package, and discuss its possible implications. Organised by the new Centre for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation (CD2I) at Brussels School of Governance, in collaboration with the Chair 'Fundamental Rights and the Digital Transformation' at VUB-LSTS and the Brussels Privacy Hub, this series brings together leading academic speakers, from different horizons, to present their latest research and analysis on content moderation, intermediary liabilities, competition rules and the regulation of internet platforms.

This seminar series seeks to present cutting-edge insights from research to provide an academic contribution to the important policy debates that shape the DSA negotiations. This seminar series took place in the academic year 2020-2021. Below you will find the recording of the seventh seminar in the series, on Before and After Disinformation: The Normative Framework for Platform Regulation in Brazil.

In this seminar, Dr. Iglesias Keller approaches the current debate of platform regulation in Brazil, as a reflection of both the disinformation combat narrative (fueled by the disinformation campaign led by President Jair Bolsonaro during the 2018 elections) and the country’s own tradition of internet regulation. After an overview of the normative framework in place, she looks at the proposals that have taken the spotlight of the policy debates during 2020, their diverse regulatory strategies (varying from content, data and structural regulation), and their relation to similar regulatory trends under discussion in different legal contexts.

Speaker

Clara Iglesias Keller coordinates the Digital Disinformation Hub at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute. She is also a research fellow at the Politics of Digitalization research group of the WZB Berlin Social Sciences Center and an associate researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, where she is part of the Platform Governance initiative. Clara has experience as researcher, lecturer and legal counsel in the fields of information technology and media regulation, and her current research focuses on the role played by governance structures and state regulation in digital transformation and regulation of online speech.