Platform Monetization and Free Expression: How Creator Payments Reshape Online Speech and Access to Information

We are pleased to announce our next Comparative Legislation Roundtable, which will explore how platform-facilitated payments to creators are reshaping online expression and access to information. The session will be led by Victoire Rio of WHAT TO FIX, who will examine recent developments in creator monetization products, policies, transparency, and emerging approaches to regulatory oversight. Matías González Mama, Regional Area Coordinator for Latin America, will moderate the discussion. The discussion will consider: * How platforms’ monetization and demonetization decisions affect freedom of expression and access to information * How existing and emerging EU legal frameworks apply to creator monetization * Whether—and to what extent—intermediary liability exemptions extend to platforms’ monetization activities * What greater transparency and accountability could look like in practice You can read more about WHAT TO FIX’s research on monetization below: * Social Media Monetization Systems: A Risk Factor * De-Risking Social Media Monetization: an Audit of VLOPs' Year 3 DSA Risk Assessments * How Platforms Are Failing Creators Under the DSA * Deep Dive: Meta’s Enforcement of Its Monetization Terms and Policies For more on monetization, check out monetization.wtf.

The meeting will take place on Thursday, September 17, at 12:00 p.m. Argentina time (8:00 AM PT / 9:00 AM CT / 10:00 AM ET / 3:00 PM UTC / 4:00 PM WAT / 4:00 PM BST / 5:00 PM CEST). If you would like to join us, please send us an email at: cele@palermo.edu