You are invited to the launch of a new VOX-Pol report, ‘Negotiating Responses to Online Terrorism Threats in the EU: State-Platform Diplomacy 2015 – 2019’, written by Marguerite Borelli. This takes place online on Monday 17 November 14:00 to 15:00 UK time (15:00 to 16:00 CET).
The zoom link to join is coming soon.
About the report
This report analyses public-private relations between the European (in particular, French) authorities and Facebook, Google (YouTube) and Twitter on the subject of terrorist usage of social media between 2015 and 2019. In a qualitative approach, interview material is mobilised to investigate lived experiences of this early cooperation, focusing on how stakeholders defined and negotiated their involvement, navigated power relations and pursued strategies to establish working relations without abandoning their respective preferences. The report finds that, although cultural fault lines influenced the stakeholders’ perceptions of roles, enthusiasm for ‘automated’ moderation was shared across the public-private boundary, justifying the development of what can be called state-platform diplomacy.
About the event
At the webinar, Valère Ndior and Gavin Sullivan will discuss the report with author Marguerite Borelli and the host, VOX-Pol Coordinator, Stuart Macdonald.
Valère Ndior is a Professor of Law at the Université de Bretagne occidentale in France (Lab-LEX research center), a Junior Fellow of the Institut universitaire de France and a researcher at the GEODE Center – Geopolitics of the Datasphere. His research focuses on international law and tech regulation law.
Gavin Sullivan is a Reader in International Human Rights Law at the University of Edinburgh Law School. Gavin’s research focuses on the politics of global security law, technology and rights using socio-legal and ethnographic methods.
