Stop hate for profit: Evaluating the mobilisation of advertisers and the advertising industry to regulate content moderation on digital platforms
This article compares the goals and outcomes of industry- and activist-led efforts that leverage advertisers to influence platform content moderation, and considers how these efforts fare as governments intervene more strongly in platform governance. It draws on contemporary documents and interviews...
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2025-03-01
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| description | This article compares the goals and outcomes of industry- and activist-led efforts that leverage advertisers to influence platform content moderation, and considers how these efforts fare as governments intervene more strongly in platform governance. It draws on contemporary documents and interviews to construct qualitative case studies of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, a content moderation focused initiative of the World Federation of Advertisers, and the Stop Hate for Profit advertiser boycott of Facebook. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8cdd449dcb434af994d78431f6e4986c2025-08-20T03:16:50ZengAlexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and SocietyInternet Policy Review2197-67752025-03-0114110.14763/2025.1.1825Stop hate for profit: Evaluating the mobilisation of advertisers and the advertising industry to regulate content moderation on digital platformsSteph Hill0University of LeicesterThis article compares the goals and outcomes of industry- and activist-led efforts that leverage advertisers to influence platform content moderation, and considers how these efforts fare as governments intervene more strongly in platform governance. It draws on contemporary documents and interviews to construct qualitative case studies of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, a content moderation focused initiative of the World Federation of Advertisers, and the Stop Hate for Profit advertiser boycott of Facebook.https://policyreview.info/node/1825Platform governanceContent moderationAdvertisersActivism |
| spellingShingle | Steph Hill Stop hate for profit: Evaluating the mobilisation of advertisers and the advertising industry to regulate content moderation on digital platforms Internet Policy Review Platform governance Content moderation Advertisers Activism |
| title | Stop hate for profit: Evaluating the mobilisation of advertisers and the advertising industry to regulate content moderation on digital platforms |
| title_full | Stop hate for profit: Evaluating the mobilisation of advertisers and the advertising industry to regulate content moderation on digital platforms |
| title_fullStr | Stop hate for profit: Evaluating the mobilisation of advertisers and the advertising industry to regulate content moderation on digital platforms |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stop hate for profit: Evaluating the mobilisation of advertisers and the advertising industry to regulate content moderation on digital platforms |
| title_short | Stop hate for profit: Evaluating the mobilisation of advertisers and the advertising industry to regulate content moderation on digital platforms |
| title_sort | stop hate for profit evaluating the mobilisation of advertisers and the advertising industry to regulate content moderation on digital platforms |
| topic | Platform governance Content moderation Advertisers Activism |
| url | https://policyreview.info/node/1825 |
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