Paul Gowder

Author Paul Gowder discusses the failures of internet platform companies in governing their users, including stolen elections and misinformation. He argues for adapting institutional tools in political science to democratize major platforms. Topics covered include the challenges of centralized governance, the importance of participatory institutions, the role of the rule of law, grassroots participation, global decision-making, and ethical challenges in cross-disciplinary work.

Paul Gowder, author of 'The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms', discusses the failures of internet platform governance, the need for institutional solutions, global democracy in the digital age, the value of democratic knowledge, dispersed governance institutions for the internet age, offshore contract workers in content moderation, and ethical challenges in academic research and book writing.

Paul Gowder, Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Research and Intellectual Life at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law, discusses the governance problem of social media platforms and argues for worldwide direct democratic institutions. Topics covered include reimagining the future of social media platforms, academic background and the creation of the oversight board, harmful effects of surveillance capitalism, advantages and concerns of centralization and decentralization, and addressing the problem of Donald Trump and the Great Deplatforming.