A constitution for social media?

To comply with the impending GDPR rules, social media platforms are asking users to accept their new privacy policies. In light of the recent scandal involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, why should users still trust private companies and accept terms unilaterally set by them? Should we rather need to craft a constitution for social media? HIIG Fellow Edoardo Celeste in his recent article published in the International Review of Law, Computers & Technology argues that in fact a similar instrument already exists. He analyses a series of bills of rights of social media users and compares them with Facebook’s terms, which seem to intentionally adopt a similar constitutional tone. He concludes that these instruments do not play a real constitutional function yet, but that they could be regarded as an alert sign for existing constitutional instruments