Tag archives: fake news

Deepfakes: Fake videos need real remedy

By Daniel Daniele (CA) on October 10, 2019 Posted in Defamation

Your friend tells you they saw a video of you on social media. You look it up. The person in that video looks like you. That person even sounds like you. To make matters worse the video shows this counterfeit version of you doing something incredibly embarrassing. You have never done what the video is … Continue reading

Germany considers € 50 million fines for social media sites failing to remove hate speech

By Sven Jacobs (DE) on April 28, 2017 Posted in Defamation

The German Justice Ministry has introduced a draft law that would impose fines of up to €50 million on social media companies that fail to remove hate speech and other illegal content from their platforms quickly. The fines would be imposed whenever social media companies do not remove online threats, hate speech, or slanderous fake … Continue reading

Who is Fact Checking the Fact Checkers?

By Daniel Daniele (CA) on April 4, 2017 Posted in Defamation, Privacy

With the proliferation of so-called “fake news”, companies are starting to rely on third party organizations to perform a “fact checking” function in order to distinguish between legitimate news and fake news. The fake news epidemic gained traction in the recent US presidential election. We have previously written about the fake news problem, as well … Continue reading

UK Government seeks to tackle the “fake news” problem

By Farah Mukaddam (UK) on March 8, 2017 Posted in Defamation

In the past, concerns regarding news focussed on traditional media (typically newspapers and broadcasters) and the role they played in curating and controlling public information and sentiment. In recent months, the focus has shifted to the distribution of news on the internet and social media and the so-called ‘fake news’ problem.… Continue reading

Fact Or Fiction: The Fake News Problem

By Mayura Noordyke (US) on December 10, 2016 Posted in Defamation

In the few months leading up to the United States election, social media was flooded with articles with sensationalized titles and incendiary content. Many of these “news” stories were fake. They were written for the purpose of swaying public opinion or generating a profit from ad revenue and were often published by sham entities or … Continue reading