Issues, Challenges and Opportunities addressed:
ASSESSING IG APPROACHES AND MECHANISMS AND FOSTERING INCLUSIVENESS: By examining the Christchurch Call, the Facebook Oversight Board, and the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, our session will directly address this policy question. It will systematically evaluate three of the most important transnational content governance mechanisms developed in the last two years. We will be assessing the way they are organized, the extent to which their organizational form includes and meaningfully empowers different stakeholder groups, and the extent to which these initiatives have a real impact on social media platforms' mechanisms of content governance. GOVERNANCE AND COOPERATION FOR AN EVOLVING INTERNET: We address the ways that IG needs to change by critically assessing the three new mechanisms mentioned above (CC Call, FBOB, GIFCT). How are they working, what problems have been identified, and what recommendations can we make for their improvement or modification? We identify the specific tools, mechanisms and capacity building instruments used for content governance in multistakeholder initiatives and evaluate their fairness and effectiveness. COPING WITH DIVERSE VIEWPOINTS AND CULTURES: How are the structures and mechanisms of these new multistakeholder initiatives in content governance dealing with the extreme diversity among cultures and viewpoints?