It’s not the only health issue to be subject to misinformation online, but the prevalence of anti-vaccination content on social media is causing great concern among public health officials, politicians and more. Read the rest of this entry »
Regulating Facebook, Google and Amazon is hard given their bewildering complexity – Zac Rogers
18 08 2019
Back in the 1990s – a lifetime ago in internet terms – the Spanish sociologist Manuel Castells published several books charting the rise of information networks. He predicted that in the networked age, more value would accrue in controlling flows of information than in controlling the content itself. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Amazon, Facebook, Google, The Conversation, Zac Rogers
Categories : Media Regulation, Social Media
Advertising Regulation: First ads to be banned under the new ASA gender-stereotyping rules – Alexandros Antoniou and Dimitris Akrivos
17 08 2019
The 14 August 2019 marked the two-month anniversary of the new advertising rule targeting ‘harmful gender stereotypes’ in the UK. On the same day, Mondelēz International Inc, one of the world’s largest snacks companies and Volkswagen, the German automaker giant, were found in breach of the UK Code of Broadcast Advertising (BCAP Code) over two television advertisements which featured such stereotypes. This post considers the first ever ads that were formally investigated by the ASA under the newly introduced rule. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Advertising, Alexandros Antoniou, ASA, Dimitris Akrivos, Gender Stereotypes
Categories : Media Regulation
Case Law, Strasbourg: Brzeziński v. Poland: Fine over ‘false’ information during election campaign violated Article 10 – Ronan Ó Fathaigh
16 08 2019
On 25 July 2019, the European Court of Human Rights delivered an important judgment in Brzeziński v. Poland, (available only in French) concerning a provision in Poland’s election law which allows a court, within 24 hours, to consider whether ‘untrue information’ has been published, and to issue an order prohibiting its further distribution. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Fake News, Ronan O Fathaigh, Strasbourg Observers
Categories : Caselaw, Freedom of expression, Human Rights
The Telegraph’s Brexit poll is bogus, but broadcasters seem not to have noticed – Steve Barnett
15 08 2019
Opinion polls exude an aura of scientific truth. Those numbers and percentages are so reassuringly solid, especially when generated by one of the well-known names of the polling world, that for many people they represent hard evidence of the state of British public opinion. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Brexit, Daily Telegraph, Opinion Polls
Categories : Media, Media Regulation
Byline Festival: Discussing Truth, Trust and Transparency in the Justice System – Transparency Project
14 08 2019
The Byline Festival takes place at Pippingford Park in Sussex over the bank holiday weekend (23 to 26 August 2019). It’s an arts and music festival with a strong focus on frank and honest discussion about politics, journalism and the media, amidst the festive fun and camping in the heart of the English countryside. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Byline Festival, The Transparency Project
Categories : Open Justice
Here’s how tech giants profit from invading our privacy, and how we can start taking it back – Katharine Kemp
13 08 2019
Australia’s consumer watchdog has recommended major changes to consumer protection and privacy laws. If these reforms are adopted, consumers will have much more say about how we deal with Google, Facebook, and other businesses. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Katharine Kemp, The Conversation
Categories : Australia, Privacy, South Africa
BBC Panorama on anti-semitism: a catalogue of reporting failures – Media Reform Coalition
12 08 2019
The BBC transmitted an edition of Panorama on 10 July called ‘Is Labour Anti-Semitic?’, presented by John Ware. It contained allegations that senior Labour figures close to Jeremy Corbyn had interfered with the internal investigations process and that the Party was insufficiently committed to tackling anti-semitism within its own ranks. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: BBC, Media Reform Coalition
Categories : Broadcasting, Media
Australia: Will the High Court ruling on public servant’s tweets have a ‘powerful chill’ on free speech? – Anthony Forsyth
10 08 2019
The Israel Folau termination case has dominated headlines for months now. Many Australians have been intrigued by the extent to which employers like Rugby Australia are able to control the social media activity of their employees – in Folau’s case, a high-profile player who tweeted his condemnation of homosexuals and others. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Anthony Forsyth, The Conversation
Categories : Australia, Freedom of expression
Practice Note: Media and Communications List becomes a Specialist List, new CPR 53, Practice Directions and Pre-Action Protocol
9 08 2019
In a major change to the media litigation landscape, wholly new version of CPR 53 and its Practice Directions have been published along with a new Pre-Action Protocol for all media and communication claims. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: CPR, Media and Communications List, Practice
Categories : Harassment, Legal, Media, Privacy
