Social Media

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...

What does the paper say? Not much. The paper does not define harmful content, but instead provides an initial list of harms that would be...

As reported here, the European Parliament approved the latest version of the EU Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market ("DSM Directive"). Following...

The Kasza Tibi decision Back in 2016 the Competition Authority started investigating social media marketing practices of certain dominant Hungarian influencers, including musician Kasza Tibi....

Moderation of Viral Videos Companies agonise over the formula for creating viral content, whether it’s music videos such as Luis Fonsi’s Despacito ft. Daddy...

We previously reported on MediaWrites that the Singapore Government had convened a Select Committee to study new laws and other measures to tackle the...

A raft of new laws and closer regulatory scrutiny will be one of the biggest challenges for the FAANGs (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and...