Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression between Oligarchy and Populism - U.S. Legal Shifts, Meta’s Oversight Board and European Futures
Datum: Wednesday, May 14th, 2025, 6:00 p.m.
Ort: Walter Hallstein Institute Library – Humboldt University Berlin, Room No. 101, Unter den Linden 6
Panel discussion with Prof. Paolo Carozza, Co-Chair of the Oversight Board and Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.
The DFG Graduate School DynamInt together with the Weizenbaum Institute have the pleasure of inviting Prof. Carozza to deliver a keynote presentation on the shifts in content moderation policy and enforcement in the United States relative to the approach implemented by the new administration. The Trump administration has been characterised as enforcing digital policy according to both oligarchic and populist logics of governance. How these shifts reverberate in platform’s content moderation policies, their impact on freedom of expression, and their enforcement remains an open question. What impact are these changes having on the practice of private adjudication as embodied in Meta’s Oversight Board, and what is the role and value of independent oversight bodies in this rapidly-evolving space? What ramifications do transformations of platform governance have on platform regulation in the EU? What legal and political consequences should be drawn from attempting to answer these questions and how is the EU legal order to be best mobilised in view of the risks that are posed to both freedom of expression and other basic human rights?
The panel discussion will be held with:
Dr. Clara Iglesias Keller, Leader of the research group "Technology, Power and Domination" at the Weizenbaum Institute:
Dr. Moritz Schramm, Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University School of Law;
And moderated by Julian Morgan, Doctoral Candidate at Humboldt University Berlin