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New Jersey Law Journal

'The Megaphone Is Cheap': As Social Media Dominates, Publishers' Intermediary Role Dwindles

As the recent anti-immigrant riots in England illustrate, it is now possible to stir up lynch mobs on a national scale with a falsehood.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

FTC Decries Social Media Platforms' 'Vast Surveillance' of Users

Consumers "do not understand how much privacy they are giving up, largely to facilitate targeted advertising," the Federal Trade Commission said in a report on the data practices of social media and video streaming companies.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

FTC Urges Congress to Pass Comprehensive Privacy Legislation

"While lucrative for the companies, these surveillance practices can endanger people's privacy, threaten their freedoms, and expose them to a host of harms, from identify theft to stalking," FTC Chair Lina Khan said.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Socially Responsible Lawyers: Why You Need to Understand Social Media to Competently Represent Your Clients (Part 1)

Social media creeps into the practice of law in many ways. We must be cognizant of our own use of social media and that of our clients.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

'Polaroid' Developments in the Digital World: Court Examines Trademark Infringement in Social Media

A recent decision from Judge J. Paul Oetken of the Southern District of New York undertakes a detailed analysis of the 'Polaroid' factors in assessing the potential for customer confusion, and provides some interesting insight.
12 minute read

Law.com

In Social Media-Related Suits, Courts Must Apply Discovery Rule on Case-by-Case Basis, Mass. Justices Say

"Given how 'vast' the social media universe is on the Internet, and how access to, and the ability to search for, social media posts may vary from platform to platform and even from post to post, that determination requires consideration of the totality of the circumstances regarding the social media posting, including the extent of its distribution, and the accessibility and searchability of the posting," Chief Justice Scott L. Kafker said.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Ex-Twitter GC Joins Match Group as Legal Chief

Sean Edgett had been at Twitter a decade when Elon Musk bought it for $44 billion in 2022 and immediately fired him and the rest of the leadership team.
3 minute read

The Recorder

How One Brazilian Judge Could Suspend Musk's X in the Coming Hours

The justice, Alexandre de Moraes, has threatened to suspend social media giant X nationwide in the coming hours if its billionaire owner Elon Musk doesn't swiftly comply with one of his orders. Musk has responded with insults, including calling de Moraes a "tyrant" and "a dictator."
7 minute read

Texas Lawyer

In Dallas, Real Estate Investor Sues Person Allegedly Behind 'LPWhisperer' X Account

David Sillers, a partner at Clare Locke in Alexandria, Virginia, represents the plaintiff, Scott Everett, in the defamation-by-tweet lawsuit against the defendant, Jakub Kostecki, who allegedly goes by the handle LPWhisperer on the social media website X.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

3rd Circuit: TikTok Cannot Evade Claims That Its Algorithm Caused 10-Year-Old's Death

"This was the clearest statement to date that Section 230 does not provide this catch-all immunity that the social media companies have been claiming it does," Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky partner Jeffrey Goodman, who represents the plaintiff, said.
4 minute read

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