The growth of social media has prompted measures to update defamation law A review of defamation law in Scotland has been launched amid the growth of social media. The Scottish government has ...

From the Spring 2008 issue of The News Media & The ... from English Common Law. This rule states that every sale and distribution of a publication is considered a separate publication of statements, ...

From a legal viewpoint, defamation occurs when an online comment can be considered as damaging to someone’s reputation "in the estimation of right-thinking members of society". It can do this by ...

including social media, drawing platform companies such as Facebook into this arena. This can lead to new forms of gatekeeping, and companies such as these taking down material regardless of its ...

There are robust First Amendment protections for journalists, and plaintiffs in defamation ... law. He said that the rise of hyper-politicized news outlets and unchecked social media had ...

Libel is part of the law ... defamation was published in the UK, where he has a reputation too that he says has been seriously harmed. Absolutely. Anything that you publish openly on social media ...