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On 7 November 2024, the Rechtbank Rotterdam (District Court of Rotterdam) delivered an important ruling on the protection of journalistic sources, and when courts can compel journalists to testify in criminal proceedings. Notably, the court ruled that an investigative journalist of the public broadcaster BNNVARA was entitled to refuse to testify in criminal proceedings against a Dutch local councillor accused of leaking confidential information. The case arose in May 2023, during a meeting of the Municipality of Dordrecht, where councillors were confidentially informed about legal correspondence...

On 1 October 2024, the Dutch Media Authority (‘Commissariaat voor de Media’) published the report ‘Young people, news and social media. A look at the future of the news’. It posits that since young people increasingly rely on social media rather than traditional media to stay updated on current events, news consumption, in general, is undergoing both massive and permanent transformation. The media routines that young people are developing now determine their media behaviour in the future. The report highlights the main implications of the increasing role of social media...

On 2 October 2024, the Netherlands Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK) published a response to parliamentary questions by Kati Piri and Barbara Catharina Kathmann, MPs from the GreenLeft-Labour political party alliance (GroenLinks–PvdA). The questions were related to the recent research on online disinformation networks during the recent elections to the European Parliament conducted by the Dutch consultancy firm Trollrensics. As seen in this research, coordinated networks of social media accounts were active in France, Germany and Italy, and they aimed to interfere with public...

On 1 October 2024, the Commissariaat voor de Media (Dutch Media Authority – CvdM) published an important draft regulation on exemption from the investment obligation for on-demand audiovisual media services. This follows the enactment of an amendment to the Dutch Media Act requiring streaming platforms – with an annual Dutch turnover of more than EUR 10 million – to invest 5% of that turnover in Dutch audiovisual productions such as series, films and documentaries (see IRIS 2024-1/15, IRIS 2023-7/10 and IRIS 2022-8/16). The new draft regulation contains rules on how exemptions...

On 7 October 2024, the Samenwerkingsplatform Digitale Toezichthouders (Dutch Digital Supervisory Cooperation Platform – SDT), which is comprised of four major Dutch regulatory authorities, published a significant recommendation that additional measures are needed to protect children and young people from social media influencer marketing. The SDT is an important regulatory cooperation platform established in 2022 by the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM), the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets, the Dutch Data Protection Authority, and the Dutch Media Authority...