Refusal to investigate hate speech comments: ECHR condemns Lithuania
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20 January, 2020
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The European Court of Human Rights held that the discriminatory attitude of the Lithuanian justice authorities deprived the applicants of their right to an effective remedy The facts: In 2014, two young men posted on Facebook a photograph of them kissing. The...
Blocking access to content previously declared unlawful: a new obligation for online platforms?
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15 January, 2020
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The well-established principle of host providers' limited liability is in the hot seat As enshrined in the Directive on Electronic Commerce of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000, the host service provider cannot be liable for the content stored...
Measuring the impact of YouTube's recommendation algorithm on information diversity and pluralism: French CSA publishes empirical study (available in French and English)
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03 December, 2019
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YouTube's algorithm appears to rely more on keywords attached to a video than on its success Do video-sharing platforms offer a pluralistic information space for citizens? This is the question that the French Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA) raised in a...