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The Conseil de déontologie journalistique et de médiation (Council for Journalistic Ethics and Mediation - CDJM), a body for self-regulation and mediation between journalists, the media, press agencies and audiences, on all issues relating to journalistic ethics, was contacted by a private individual in March 2025 regarding an article on the Jeuxvidéo.com website, alleging a lack of respect for accuracy and an affront to dignity. The article, referring to a survey, concluded that people from generation Z have a problem with punctuality. The article's author introduced the...

A number of associations had asked the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (the French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) to send a formal notice, on the basis of Articles 42 and 48-1 of the Law of 30 September 1986, to the television services France 2, France 3, France 4, France 5, France Info, Arte, TF1, M6, TMC and BFM, and radio services France Inter, France Culture, RMC and RTL, urging them to “amend the list [of] presenters, columnists and guests other than politicians” appearing on their programmes “so that the various...

The French Minister for Culture and the Minister for AI and the Digital Economy had sought the annulment of the interim order of 16 June 2025 (see IRIS 2025-7:1/14) which, at the request of the operator of the Cyprus-based xHamster website, had suspended the order of 26 February 2025 requiring 17 pornographic websites (including its own) established in another EU member state to implement an effective system for verifying their users’ age. The Conseil d’Etat (Council of State) ruled that the interim relief judge of the Paris Administrative Court had erred in law by relying solely...

Article 1-3 of the Law of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy (LCEN), created by Article 12 of the Law of 21 May 2024 aimed at securing and regulating the digital space, requires any producer of pornographic content simulating simple, aggravated or incestuous rape to display, before and during its distribution, a message warning all users, regardless of age, of the illegal nature of the behaviour depicted. Decree no. 2025-767 of 4 August 2025, which implements this provision, specifies the wording of the message warning users of such pornographic content, as well as how it should...

A number of associations are seeking the annulment, on grounds of ultra vires, of decree no. 2023-432 of 3 June 2023 implementing Articles 6-1-1 and 6-1-5 of Law no. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy (as amended by the Law of 16 August 2022), and Regulation (EU) 2021/784 of 29 April 2021 on addressing the dissemination of terrorist content online. This decree designates the administrative authority with jurisdiction to issue injunctions for the removal of terrorist content, specifies the procedures for exchanging information between the authorities concerned and lays...