Governing platforms through corporate risk management: the politics of systemic risk in the Digital Services Act

The EU’s 2022 Digital Services Act (DSA) requires large online platforms to assess and mitigate risks to various vaguely-defined and contestable values, including fundamental rights; public health and security; civic discourse; and people’s mental and physical wellbeing. The scope of these provision...

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Main Author: Rachel Griffin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2025-06-01
Series:European Law Open
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2752613525000177/type/journal_article
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Summary:The EU’s 2022 Digital Services Act (DSA) requires large online platforms to assess and mitigate risks to various vaguely-defined and contestable values, including fundamental rights; public health and security; civic discourse; and people’s mental and physical wellbeing. The scope of these provisions is thus incredibly broad and they have unsurprisingly attracted significant academic interest. So far, most scholarship has taken a broadly functionalist approach: it accepts the basic premise that certain social impacts of platforms constitute risks which must be managed, and evaluates the DSA’s capacity to achieve this ‘effectively’.
ISSN:2752-6135