Print Email Facebook Twitter The 2021 German Federal Election on Social Media: Analysing Electoral Risks Created by Twitter and Facebook Title The 2021 German Federal Election on Social Media: Analysing Electoral Risks Created by Twitter and Facebook Author Kübler, Johanne (Vienna University of Economics and Business) Sekwenz, M.T. (TU Delft Organisation & Governance) Rachinger, Felicitas (University of Innsbruck) König, Anna (University of Potsdam) Gsenger, Rita (University of Potsdam) Pirkova, Eliska (Access Now) Kettemann, Matthias C. (University of Innsbruck) Wagner, Ben (TU Delft Organisation & Governance; InHolland) Krennerich, Michael (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) Ferro, Carolina (Enabling Digital) Date 2023-01 Abstract Safeguarding democratic elections is hard. Social media plays a vital role in the discourse around elections and during electoral campaigns. The following article provides an analysis of the ‘systemic electoral risks’ created by Twitter and Facebook and the mitigation strategies employed by the platforms. It is based on the 2020 proposal by the European Commission for the new Digital Services Act (DSA) in the context of the 2021 German federal elections. This article focuses on Twitter and Facebook and their roles during the German federal elections that took place on 26 September 2021. We analysed three systemic electoral risk categories: 1) the dissemination of illegal content, 2) negative effects on electoral rights, and 3) the influence of disinformation and developed systematic categories for this purpose. In conclusion, we discuss how to respond to these challenges as well as avenues for future research. Subject disinformationelectionsGermanyillegal contentsocio-technical systemsplatform governance To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:65c09c61-c790-4021-8d72-e48c4cc07a09 Source Proceedings of the 56th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2023 Event 56th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2023, 2023-01-03 → 2023-01-06, Hawaii , Virtual, Online, United States Series Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (56.) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2023 Johanne Kübler, M.T. Sekwenz, Felicitas Rachinger, Anna König, Rita Gsenger, Eliska Pirkova, Matthias C. Kettemann, Ben Wagner, Michael Krennerich, Carolina Ferro Files PDF 0394.pdf 501.14 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:65c09c61-c790-4021-8d72-e48c4cc07a09/datastream/OBJ/view