The LSE Truth, Trust and Technology Commission (T3) deals with the crisis in public information – aka “fake news”, Cambridge Analytica, election hacking, the crisis in journalism, filter bubbles, biased algorithms, ill-informed citizens and more. Read the rest of this entry »
Case Law: Lloyd v Google, No compensation for Google data breaches – Rosalind English
13 10 2018
Most of us resignedly consent to the use of cookies in order to use internet sites, vaguely aware that these collect information about our browsing habits in order to target us with advertisements. It’s annoying, but does it do us any harm? That is the question that came up before Warby J in a preliminary application for a representative claim in the case of Lloyd v Google LLC [2018] EWHC 2599 (QB). Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Data Protection, Privacy, Social Media
Anticipatory regulation: a way forward for platform governance? – Jelena Dzakula
12 10 2018
A wide consensus has emerged that regulatory framework for platforms like Google and Facebook needs to change. Calls for action are coming from a range of different stakeholders in the UK, with proposed solutions varying in terms of models of regulation, and who should implement them. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Anticipatory Regulation, Jelena Dzakula, LSE. Media Policy Project
Categories : Internet, Media Regulation, Social Media
A Lord Chamberlain for the internet? Thanks, but no thanks – Graham Smith
10 10 2018
This summer marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Theatres Act 1968, the legislation that freed the theatres from the censorious hand of the Lord Chamberlain of Her Majesty’s Household. Thereafter theatres needed to concern themselves only with the general laws governing speech. In addition they were granted a public good defence to obscenity and immunity from common law offences against public morality. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Freedom of expression, Internet, Media Regulation, Social Media
Regulate social media? It’s a bit more complicated than that – Sara Solmone
3 10 2018
Free speech is a key aspect of the internet, but it has become increasingly obvious that many online will push that freedom to extremes, leaving website comment sections, Twitter feeds and Facebook groups awash with racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise unpalatable opinions and vitriolic views, and obscene or shocking images or videos. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Internet, Media Regulation, Social Media
Regulating online platforms for misinformation and disinformation – Mark Bunting
2 10 2018
How to deal with misinformation is a topic of significant debate in the UK, and a focus of the LSE Commission on Truth, Trust and Technology, which will launch its report in November. The Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee has released its interim report from its inquiry into fake news, and is likely to publish its final report in the coming months. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Fake News, LSE. Media Policy Project, Mark Bunting
Categories : Internet, Social Media
Book Review: Anti-social media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy – Oscar Davies
27 09 2018
In his new book, Anti-Social Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy Siva Vaidhyanathan lays out why Facebook may be good for some people, but not good for democracy as a whole.
The book is divided into sections delineating the ways in which we can look at Facebook: as a pleasure machine, a surveillance machine, an attention machine, a benevolence machine, a protest machine, a politics machine or a disinformation machine. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Social Media
