Evelyn Douek

Senior researcher and legal scholar at Stanford Internet Observatory focusing on platform content moderation, digital governance, and the institutional design of content governance systems. Her work critically examines the limitations of judicial metaphors in platform regulation and advocates for systems-thinking approaches to content moderation policy.

Sources in this wiki

• Content Moderation as Systems Thinking (Stanford Seminar, 2023)

Research interests

• Content moderation governance and institutional design
• Platform regulation and policy analysis
• First Amendment law and digital speech
• Multi-stakeholder content governance frameworks
• Systemic bias in content moderation systems

Notes

Douek's work is significant for positioning content moderation not as a speech/free-expression problem primarily amenable to judicial procedural solutions, but as a systems design and regulatory challenge. Her distinction between "first wave" (individualistic, appeals-focused) and "second wave" (systemic, design-focused) reform approaches is influential in policy circles and provides conceptual clarity to ongoing debates about platform accountability and legal regulation of content moderation.