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C8 asked the Council of State (Conseil d'État) to annul the decision by which the French audiovisual regulator (Autorité de Régulation de la Communication Audiovisuelle et Numérique – ARCOM) had fined it €50 000 for breaching its obligation to respect human rights laid down in its licence agreement, following the broadcast of a feature on xylazine, described as "the zombie drug", during the programme "PAF avec Baba" on 12 September 2023. The Council of State noted that the host of the programme had wanted to draw viewers' attention...

Noting that illegal products, in particular childlike sex dolls but also certain weapons and medicines banned from online sale, had been reported as being offered for sale on the Shein online sales platform, designated as a "very large platform" within the meaning of the DSA by the European Commission, the French state summoned the platform's Irish operator and the main companies providing access to it in France before the president of the Paris Court of First Instance under the fast-track procedure. Its principal request was that, under Article 6-3 of the Law...

Following the live streaming, on 18 August 2025, of the death of Raphaël Graven, alias "Jean Pormanove", during a broadcast lasting around 300 hours on the channel of the same name on the Australian streaming platform kick.com, which has a French-language version, the French Minister for AI and the Digital Economy referred the case to the president of the Paris Tribunal Judiciaire (judicial court) under Article 6-3 of the Loi pour la confiance dans l’économie numérique (French Law on Confidence in the Digital Economy – LCEN) and EU Regulation...

In an application based on Articles 6, 6(3) and 6(4) of the Law of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy (LCEN), ARCOM brought an action before the president of the Paris Court of first instance in an expedited procedure on the merits, requesting that the main internet service providers (Orange, Free, Free Mobile, SFR, SFR Fibre, Bouygues Telecom) be ordered to take all appropriate measures to prevent access from French territory to the watchpeopledie.tv website. It maintains that this site is dedicated to the broadcasting of images of deliberate attacks on the integrity of the person...

Pursuant to Articles 27 and 33-2 of Law No. 86-1067 of 30 September 1986 on freedom of communication, Decree 2025-1421 of 30 December 2025 amends Decree 2021-793 of 22 June 2021 on on-demand audiovisual media services (SMAD) in three ways. Firstly, in order to strengthen production of the most vulnerable audiovisual genres and to combat the concentration of investment in a single genre of works (since the SMAD decree came into force, fiction has accounted for 89.8% of production contributions from platforms), the decree requires, after a three-year ramp-up period, that at least 20% of...