This article identifies the current global 'techlash'towards the major digital and social media
platforms as providing the context for a renewed debate about whether these digital platform
companies are effectively media companies (publishers and broadcasters of media content),
and implications this has for twenty-first-century media policy. It identifies content moderation
as a critical site around which such debates are being played out, and considers the
challenges arising as national and regionally based regulatory options are considered for …