Dear Community Member, Asia-Pacific School on Internet Governance is pleased to invite you to join a webinar as part of our effort to engage with the community on a few selected topics of interest in the emerging areas. We initiated this series of webinars starting on the 3rd of July last month. Our next webinar would be on the *topic of," Social Media Governance at the Cross Roads ",* The details of the webinar are as follows: *Date: August 30, 2021* *Time: 1100 UTC* *Speaker : Prof Farzaneh Badiei;Founder, Digital Medusaat * About the speaker: Dr. Farzaneh Badiei is the founder of Digital Medusa, an initiative that focuses on protecting the core values of our global digital space with sound governance. For the past decade, Dr. Badiei has directed and led projects about Internet and social media governance. Until recently she was a research scholar at Yale Law School and led the Social Media Governance Initiative. Prior to that, she was the Executive Director of the Internet Governance Project at Georgia Tech. Dr. Badiei received her Ph.D. in law from the University of Hamburg, Institute of Law and Economics. Her dissertation focused on online private justice systems, institutional design, and online market intermediaries. Between 2011 and 2014, Dr. Badiei worked at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum Secretariat. About the Session Theme: Content moderation on Internet platforms has a long history on the Internet. That history is often neglected, yet we need to know about it to prepare for the future. With the influx of users to contemporary social media platforms, which can generate millions of bits of content per minute, content moderation and platform governance became the hot issue, and so they are under scrutiny by regulators around the world. User- generated content affects our social and political systems both positively and negatively. This session explores the current governance mechanisms used for platform governance and their advantages and disadvantages by looking at the past and peering into the future. The session will also address the competing pressures on platform content moderation from various stakeholders (Government, Civil Society, and Platforms) and discuss possible solutions. For participation, you may kindly register at the following link : https://forms.gle/8VTUHsZk3mqGYqEv8 Once the registration is over, you will be receiving a confirmation mail wherein a zoom link will be provided for the webinar. We look forward to hosting you. With regards, Dr. Govind Chair, APSIG Program Committee ReplyReply allForward