Tag Archives: social media

Lads, run your own accounts

Posted on December 15, 2021 by Molly Jones

The memorable but unfortunate 2016 tweet by Victor Anichebe of his advisor’s message beginning “Can you tweet something like … unbelievable support yesterday and great effort by the lads! …” following another poor Sunderland performance exposed Anichebe to ridicule and …

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UK Supreme Court considers ‘ordinary reader of Facebook’ in Defamation claim

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Christopher Wilsher

The UK Supreme Court has overturned a decision of the Court of Appeal, and held that the judge erred in law by using the Oxford English dictionary definition of a word as a starting point and not taking its context …

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Social media should be responsible for libels

Posted on April 18, 2019 by Alice Heathfield

AC Grayling’s victory last week in a Twitter libel case has set down a marker to those who think they can attack and insult people online with impunity. Grayling, a renowned philosopher and author, sued Peter North, a former UKIP …

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How to make friends and influence people … and not get fined!

Posted on November 8, 2018 by Alice Heathfield

The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA), in collaboration with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) have recently published a new guide to outline the advertising rules which apply to social media ‘influencers’. This came following their investigation into social media advertising …

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