Platform Justice is a public interest research initiative focused on how platforms — from gig apps and rental sites to creator tools and social networks — silently govern people’s lives. From shadowbans and deactivations to price suppression and opaque enforcement, platforms increasingly act as private regulators of economic access and visibility.
When something goes wrong, there’s often no explanation — just automated support loops, arbitration clauses, and vanished opportunities. We exist to make those hidden systems visible — and to advocate for accountability, fairness, and justice in the digital age.
You’re Not Alone. And You’re Not Powerless.
As platforms increasingly mediate work, housing, visibility, and access to income, they also act as private regulators — shaping opportunity, often through invisible and automated decisions.
PlatformJustice.org was created to investigate this new terrain of power. We document how platforms’ design, enforcement, and policies affect people’s lives — and how those systems insulate themselves from scrutiny or redress.
Through research, collaboration, and public advocacy, we work to make these hidden systems visible and accountable.
PlatformJustice.org exists to investigate these emerging systems of power — and to center the real people affected by algorithmic decisions, policy design, and enforcement choices.
Platform harms are often explained away as “glitches” or “just the algorithm.” But our approach goes deeper
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Ensuring transparency, responsibility, and ethical practices in the online space.
