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The case concerns the payment of damages by META to a politician following a shadowban on his Facebook page. META found that the politician's posts violated Facebook's Terms of Service and Community Standards, with META citing hate speech, endorsing dangerous individuals and hate organisations, and bullying and intimidation as reasons. For that, in early 2021, temporary restrictions were imposed on the politician's personal and advertising Facebook pages. Among other measures, a shadowban was implemented, reducing the page's organic reach and resulting in fewer people seeing the...

At the end of February, the Flemish Parliament approved a proposal for a decree by Flemish Minister of Media Benjamin Dalle. This decree aims to revise Flemish regulations on radio broadcasting and television, to strengthen and reinforce the Flemish audiovisual sector. It achieves this goal by requiring financial contributions from streaming and video-sharing platforms to produce Flemish audiovisual content. A key focus is updating and aligning the existing investment obligations applicable to service distributors and private broadcasters offering non-linear television services. Moreover, the decree...

Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a Single Market For Digital Services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC (Digital Services Act) is fully applicable since17 February 2024 (Article 93). Although all aspects of an EU Regulation are binding on and directly applicable in all member states, its application requires the member states to adopt various measures. In this case, for example, they are required to designate “one or more competent authorities to be responsible for the supervision of providers of intermediary services and enforcement...

On 4 July 2023 the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) confirmed the conclusion of its Chamber judgment of 22 June 2021 in the case of Hurbain v. Belgium (IRIS 2021-8/27). The ECtHR found that a court order to anonymise an article in a newspaper’s electronic archive did not violate the publisher’s right to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The judgment holds an application of the “right to be forgotten” as part of the right of privacy under Article 8 ECHR, in particular in respect of online media...

On 24 March 2023, in order to meet the challenges of protecting young people in the media in the 21st century, media regulators from Belgium, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Cyprus set up an international working group on age verification, which will meet regularly to exchange information about topical issues related to youth protection in the media. They published a joint statement that sets out the main elements of their future cooperation. The working group’s current members are the French Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique...