Public trust in media continues to hover near all-time lows, driven by perceptions that the news industry is partisan and peddles inaccurate information (“fake news”), as well as ambivalence about news from social media. Continue reading
The International Forum for Responsible Media Blog
Month: March 2019 (Page 1 of 4)
As the computing industry grapples with its role in society, many people, both in the field and outside it, are talking about a crisis of ethics. Continue reading
When The Project host Waleed Aly began his editorial in the wake of the Christchurch massacre, he apologised that “these won’t be my best words”. Continue reading
In November 2018, the Government announced that from 6 April 2019 conditional fee agreement (‘CFA’) success fees would no longer be recoverable from opponents in defamation and privacy claims. Continue reading
On 5 March 2019, a Manchester-based FinTech company was found in breach of the UK Code of Non-broadcast Advertising (CAP Code) over a Brexit-related online advertisement, which put emotional pressure on readers to take out a short-term loan. Continue reading
The Ministry of Justice has published the privacy injunction statistics for 2018. These record a total of 5 new interim privacy injunction applications. Of these 3 were granted, one was refused and one was withdrawn. The statistics are to be found in Section 7 of the Civil Justice Quarterly for October to December 2018 [pdf], published earlier this month. Continue reading
This week saw the announcement of the dissolution of the long established media law set, 1 Brick Court, headed by Lord Garnier QC. We had a post about this and there were also stories in the Law Society Gazette and on Legal Cheek. Continue reading
Case Law, Australia: O’Reilly v Edgar, Fact free Facebook Posts, $250,000 damages – Gabrielle Hunter
In the case of O’Reilly v Edgar ([2019] QSC 24) the Supreme Court of Queensland awarded Kelvin O’Reilly, the CEO of a go-kart racing organisation, $270 658.71 in damages, including aggravated damages, for defamatory posts by a Facebook troll. Continue reading
The European parliament will vote at the end of March 2019 on a proposal to reform EU copyright law. Under this proposal, online platforms arguably have to introduce technological filters to tackle copyright infringements. This will be of particular interest to people who make satirical memes or parodies based on online content such as art or films, much of which is subject to copyright protection. Continue reading
There are widespread calls to regulate social media. Hardly a day goes by without some new outrage which eclipses what we have seen already. One of the great problems for anyone wishing to put a stop to the abuse is that social media users can easily make themselves anonymous Continue reading
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