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In a ruling of 10 February 2017, the Conseil d’Etat (Council of State) confirmed that the national audiovisual regulatory authority in France, the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA), had acted lawfully by issuing a formal notice to a radio station that had broadcast information likely to endanger the lives of people being held hostage during a terrorist attack. On 9 January 2015, while terrorist acts were being committed simultaneously at different locations, the radio station Europe 1 had broadcast live information concerning police attempts to catch the terrorists responsible for the Charlie...

Facebook and Google have simultaneously announced the deployment in France in the near future of arrangements for flagging fake news. To achieve this, Facebook has joined forces with eight French partner organisations in the media (Le Monde, Agence France-Presse, BFM-TV, France Télévisions, France Médias Monde, L’Express, Libération, and 20 Minutes) so that users can flag information they believe to be fake. The links flagged are to be gathered together on a portal to which the partner media organisations will have access, and they will then be able to check the information. If two partner organisations...

The official presidential campaign began in the media on 1 February 2017, in accordance with the CSA’s recommendation of 7 September 2016, which was adopted under the Act of 24 April 2016. The campaign is divided into three stages. (i) From 1 February to 20 March candidates and their supporters will enjoy equal speaking time and airtime. This will be calculated for each declared or presumed candidate – not for each political grouping. The principle of equity means that television channels and radio stations must allocate speaking time and airtime to the candidates and their supporters according...

In February 2016, after undertaking broad consultations, Jean-François Mary, Chairman of the Film Classification Board, submitted to Minister for Culture Audrey Azoulay a report on the classification of cinematographic works with regard to minors aged between 16 and 18. The report had been commissioned after considerable controversy was caused by the courts’ cancellation of the licences issued to a number of films containing scenes of non-simulated sexual activity (including Love and La Vie d'Adèle) or scenes of extreme violence (including Salafistes). Despite the fact that at the time the Minister...

On 11 January 2017, the national audiovisual regulatory authority in France (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) announced that it had issued a “stern” warning to TV channels TF1 and M6 for persistently giving excessive airtime to the parliamentary opposition. In the run-up to the forthcoming presidential elections on 23 April and 8 May, the CSA must scrupulously monitor the application of the rules governing electoral news broadcasts. To this end, every fortnight it publishes on its website how much speaking time has been given to politicians in news and information bulletins, magazine shows...