Reluctant arbiters of truth: Discursive legitimation of platform interventions against COVID-19 misinformation
Published online on August 28, 2025
Abstract
New Media & Society, Ahead of Print.
Major digital platforms have long resisted fact-checking their users, even as public concern about misinformation has grown. We explore how they legitimated a change in this policy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using blog posts by Meta, YouTube and ...
Major digital platforms have long resisted fact-checking their users, even as public concern about misinformation has grown. We explore how they legitimated a change in this policy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using blog posts by Meta, YouTube and ...