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‘Must-carry’, special treatment and freedom of expression on online platforms: a European story

This blogpost is the part. 1 of a trilogy. It provides an overview of the current legislative initiatives imposing age restrictions on social media and evaluates them from a children’s right perspecti...

Some U.S. politicians have recently characterized European platform and social media regulation laws as “censorship” of speech in the U.S. If this claim were true, it would be a very big deal. As some...

Australia said on Wednesday it will add YouTube to sites covered by its world-first ban on social media for teenagers, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the Alphabet-owned video-sharing site and potentially setting up a legal challenge.

Standards and guidelines must be in place to support the implementation of the AI Act before its rules take effect, EU digital chief Henna Virkkunen said today, acknowledging that she does not “rule o...

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GiKii 2025 – Call for Papers Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) 11-12 September 2025 Technology in its villain era Has technology’s slouch towards everm…

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Since September 2022, the EBU has been participating in veraAI, a Horizon Europe project that develops AI-based tools against disinformation. Join us in our webinar series about the research behind th...

The initiative SAFE: Support and Assistance Facility for Experts is open permanently for applications until 27 Feb 2025.

Do the possibilities presented by an innovative, open, and free internet inspire you? Do you find yourself engaged in passionate discussions about privacy policies? If so, you might be a great fit for our team.

The Italian government has recently been at the center of a controversy, due to its alleged role in surveilling journalists and other members of the civil society with military spyware. This blog post...

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Protections on free speech look weaker than they did when I became a permanent resident.

A former health insurance boss has taken legal action against 'Last Week Tonight' host John Oliver, filing a defamation lawsuit against the Emmy winner.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly important in our daily lives and so is academic research on its impact on various legal domains. One of th

As part of what commentators increasingly refer to as a turn to techno-fascism (see here and there and also there among many others), the US new Trump administration notably deploys a severe deregulat...

Hundreds of staff at Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe and other outlets received a weekend email saying they will be barred from their offices and should surrender press passes and...

On December 4, 2024, the Center for IT and IP Law at KU Leuven (CiTiP) and the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE) at Universidad de Palermo co-hosted an in-pe...