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On 2 October 2025, the District Court of Amsterdam issued a ruling in the summary proceedings (kort geding) brought against Meta by digital rights organisation Bits of Freedom. The court found that Meta had violated the Digital Services Act (DSA) by failing to preserve the user’s choice of a chronological feed and ordered it to ensure that Dutch users could retain a non-algorithmic recommender system when reopening the app or website or navigating to other sections thereof. Under the DSA, all providers of online platforms must ensure the transparency of their recommender systems...

On 28 May 2025, the Dutch Media Authority published a new policy rule on the classification of on-demand commercial media services (2025 Policy Rule). It replaces the previous policy rule adopted in 2022, which covered a narrower group of video uploaders subject to the active supervision of the Media Authority. The final version of the 2025 Policy Rule reflects the outcomes of public consultation that followed the publication of the draft in March 2025 (IRIS 2025-4:1/15). The 2025 Policy Rule aims to put into effect the provisions of the Dutch Media Act of 2008. This act was amended in 2020...

On 16 June 2025, the District Court of Central Netherlands issued a preliminary relief ruling, holding that the Dutch public broadcaster AVROTROS does not have to grant the Dutch Media Authority (Commissariaat voor de Media) access to two confidential research reports concerning workplace safety. The request for preliminary relief was brought by AVROTROS following the Media Authority’s request to inspect the reports regarding social safety and governance within the organisation drawn up by external parties in 2023. These reports formed the basis for AVROTROS’s action plan, which...

 On 17 April 2025, the Rechtbank Amsterdam (District Court of Amsterdam) delivered a significant ruling on broadcast journalism reporting on serious allegations against commercial companies. Notably, the Court refused to order a “publication ban” against a well-known Dutch news programme reporting on serious fraud allegations against an employment agency, holding that such a journalistic programme must enjoy wide freedom of expression to address matters of public interest, even where the allegations would have very damaging consequences for the commercial company.   The...

On 15 April 2025, the Dutch Secretary of State for Legal Protection (Staatssecretaris Rechtsbescherming) submitted an important bill to the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer), seeking to implement the 2024 EU Directive on protecting persons who engage in public participation from manifestly unfounded claims or abusive court proceedings (strategic lawsuits against public participation – SLAPPs), known as the Anti-SLAPP Directive (see IRIS 2024-3/5 and IRIS 2022-5/6). The purpose of the directive is to provide safeguards against SLAPPs, which are manifestly unfounded claims or abusive...