Social Media & Digital Content Providers

From Facebook's 'thumbs up' to Reddit's 'upvote' and Instagram's and Tik-Tok's 'likes', so-called 'vanity metrics' in social media are ubiquitous, and 'double-tapping' has become...

As reported previously on Mediawrites, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") rendered a controversial decision in 2018 according to which the...

We've been catching up with MediaWrites authors about the hottest topics being discussed in the media industry. In the latest instalment of MediaBytes, Katrina...

Many social media platforms have recently been the subject of public scrutiny for harmful content such as terrorism, bullying and disinformation disseminated by individuals...

From internet time immemorial the UK government has adhered to the principle of online-offline equivalence. No Ministerial speech or government paper has been complete...

Airbnb should be treated as an 'information society service' ("ISS") according to a recent opinion of an Advocate General of the European Court of...

Is the concept of 'duty of care' a novel one? The concept of a duty of care is well known in the offline world. So...

The government's Online Harms White Paper proposes a new online safety framework, to be implemented, overseen and enforced by "an independent regulator" with "effective...

As discussed previously in the series, the OHWP sets out the government's proposals to tackle online content and activity that harms individual users or...