Research Essay10 min readDraft
Platform accountability assumes there is someone with enough power, evidence, and legitimacy to make platforms respond. In fragile democracies, that assumption often breaks down.
Regulators may lack technical capacity. Courts may be slow or politicised. Civil society may carry the evidence burden without formal leverage. Platforms may respond quickly to high-income markets while treating other contexts as peripheral.
The result is not simply poor enforcement. It is an accountability structure where the people closest to the harm often have the least power to demand remedy.
Accountability depends on who has the power to make platforms respond.
Platform accountabilityDemocracyDigital rights
