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U.S. Supreme Court Will Hear Political Football Section 230 Case — Why This One?
The Supreme Court has decided in the context of national security to consider the parameters of, and possible limits to, "Section 230" liability protections for social media companies. The question is why this case? The Supreme Court has decided to accept a case that, while sounding narrow and technical, actually goes to the heart of the way many Internet platforms operate — algorithmic targeted content recommendations.
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Impersonation on Social Media: The Increasing Challenges of Verification
The recent flurry of online impersonators, ranging from accounts posing as President Joe Biden to the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, exposes the challenges of social media platforms' verification and authentication processes.
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Fair Use of Embedded Content on Social Media
The change in character of social media, from purely social communication to a mixture of the social and commercial, has had knock-on effects for courts applying traditional legal principles, notably, the application of copyright law.
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Legal Tech: Twitter's Future and E-discovery
Whether Twitter's doomsday is coming is still uncertain. But the threat of loss of years' worth of companies' data could be the impetus behind testing collection tools and reevaluating e-discovery processes.
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Why Your Law Firm Should Be Investing In SEO and PPC
Search engine optimization (SEO) and pay-per-click advertising (PPC) are extremely beneficial digital marketing strategies your law firm can capitalize on. The question you may be asking yourself now is whether you should invest your marketing dollars in SEO, PPC or both.
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Is Twitter Worth the Bother?
A current question on a lot of marketers' minds: "Is Twitter worth the trouble?" For some firms, Twitter may be the best social media platform; others may not say the same. Let's discuss Twitter and whether the time and effort needed are worth it.
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The Slack Explosion: Convenient Yet Complicated, Part 2
Best Practices to Simplify Future E-discovery Part Two of a Two-Part Series Just as the legal industry had to scramble to figure out how to handle email and other electronic documents a couple decades ago, e-discovery practices must once again shift to account for the realities of business being conducted via chat and the massive amounts of new types of data that chat platforms generate.
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Ninth Circuit Allows Data Scraping from LinkedIn
The Ninth Circuit reaffirmed data analytics company hiQ Labs Inc.'s ability to scrape publicly available data from LinkedIn's platform despite the social media company's claim that the data collected violated federal hacking laws.
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SAG-AFTRA's Influencer Agreement and Waiver
For years, the legal framework governing the collaboration between influencers, advertisers and brands has been comparable to the Wild West, presenting multiple legal challenges to navigate. Influencer marketing exponentially grew when the COVID-19 pandemic drew performers to social media as the principal outlet to connect with their audience. As a result, SAG-AFTRA decided to venture into the fast-growing influencer market.
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The Slack Explosion: Convenient Yet Complicated
Part One of a Two-Part Series The informality of chat culture not only makes chat data harder to search, it also results in huge volumes of a new kind of data that must be processed in unique ways before it can be reviewed.
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