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Social Links: Warnings, Watch Time, and Ghosts in the Feed

YouTube TV is thriving, and its rivals want a piece of the action. Recently, media ratings giant Nielsen confirmed that YouTube is now not only the most-watched streaming service in the United States, but also the...more

Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A.

Legislative Top 5 – April 2025 #2

It’s All Budget Bills - Following a weeklong break for Passover and Easter, the legislature is back to work and quickly moving omnibus bills through the legislative process. Finance committees had to pass their two-year...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Political Influencers: Entering a New World

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Unless you live under a rock, your news feed has been dominated by the upcoming presidential election and opinions about the respective images and branding embodied by the candidates. What seems different this time is the...more

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Setting Some Ground Rules: Gavin Newsom Signs Bills Regulating AI in Political Campaigns

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What would you do if you received a call from the sitting president of the United States telling you not to vote in your state’s upcoming party primary election? In January 2024, many New Hampshire voters faced this...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Political Discourse in the Workplace: Considerations for Employers

With a presidential election just around the corner, employers can expect to see an uptick in political discussions in the workplace, if they haven’t already. The days when coworkers typically refrained from discussing...more

Brooks Pierce

With Election Season in Full Swing, Many States Legislate on Deepfakes in Political Ads – Broadcasters Among Those Caught in the...

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With November’s Election Day less than five months away and an onslaught of political ads already hitting the airwaves and social media feeds, many state legislatures have enacted or are considering passing legislation...more

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In-Compliance Newsletter: March 2024 Round-up

On March 15, 2024, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Lindke v. Freed and a per curiam opinion in O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier addressing when a public official may prevent a person from commenting on the public...more

Nossaman LLP

Compliance Notes - Vol. 5, Issue 12

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Welcome to Compliance Notes from Nossaman’s Government Relations & Regulation Group – a periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes and court cases involving campaign finance, lobbying compliance,...more

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In Compliance: Holtzman Vogel's February 2024 Round-up

The FCC issued a Declaratory Ruling on February 8 to ensure that telephone calls that use artificial intelligence (AI) to generate or mimic human voices are treated as “robocalls” for purposes of the Telephone Consumer...more

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Compliance Notes - Vol. 4, Issue 44

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Welcome to Compliance Notes from Nossaman’s Government Relations & Regulation Group – a periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes and court cases involving campaign finance, lobbying compliance,...more

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Compliance Notes - Vol. 4, Issue 43

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Welcome to Compliance Notes from Nossaman’s Government Relations & Regulation Group – a periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes and court cases involving campaign finance, lobbying compliance,...more

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New Internet Communications Rules Issued in Time for 2024 Election

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More than 15 years after the Federal Election Commission (FEC) issued its first Internet Communications regulations, and 11 years after the start of the current Internet Communications Disclaimer rulemaking, the FEC voted 5-0...more

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Twitter Wins Dismissal of Defamation Suit in Florida Federal Court

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A Florida federal court recently dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought against social media giant Twitter in a case related to documents allegedly obtained from President Biden’s son Hunter’s laptop.1  The plaintiff, John...more

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Federal Court Blocks Florida Law Aimed at Social Media Giants

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A federal judge recently blocked a Florida law that would have penalized social media companies for removing, or refusing to publish, posts by politicians. Florida legislators approved the legislation after Facebook, Twitter...more

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Industry Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Florida Social Media Law

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On May 24, 2021, Florida’s governor signed into law legislation prohibiting social media companies from blocking political candidates seeking to use those companies’ websites to communicate with the sites’ users. Almost...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Politics in the workplace: A volatile combination!

On the eve of Election Day, what can employers do to keep their workplaces from exploding? What workplace speech is protected by the First Amendment or the National Labor Relations Act? When do political social media posts...more

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Twitter suspension based on ‘Election integrity policy’ ruled unlawful by German court

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In a ruling on 7 June 2019 (ref. 11 O 3362/19), the Landgericht Nürnberg-Fürth decided that the social network Twitter is prohibited from temporarily suspending the account of a Twitter user on twitter.com due to the...more

Cozen O'Connor

Twitter Dinged On Political Advertising | California’s Mini-CFPB | Hospital System Settles Data Breach

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Antitrust- FTC Orders Divestment of Gas Stations to Avoid Harming Competition in Local Markets- •The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued an order requiring energy company Arko Holdings Ltd. and its subsidiaries...more

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Compliance Notes – Vol. 1, Issue 23

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Welcome to Compliance Notes from Nossaman’s Government Relations & Regulation Group – a periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes and court cases involving campaign finance, lobbying compliance,...more

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Compliance Notes – Vol. 1, Issue 16

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Welcome to Compliance Notes from Nossaman’s Government Relations & Regulation Group – a periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes, and court cases involving campaign finance, lobbying compliance,...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.31.2019 | Top Story: Fed Delivers Expected Interest Rate Cut

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As universally expected, the Fed’s Open Market Committee delivered its third interest rate cut of 2019 yesterday, though it did so while signaling that it’s likely to pause before taking action again and “is now shifting into...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Is There Anybody Behind That Bot?

As previously reported on DWT’s AI Law Advisor blog, beginning on July 1, 2019, a new California law makes it unlawful for any person to use a “bot” to communicate with a person in California “online” with the intent to...more

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Cambridge Analytica Shook Up the Way We View Data Privacy—and Ediscovery Collections

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After 2018, companies may never view online data collection in the same way again. Just as the world was turning its attention to the importance of protecting individuals’ data privacy, Facebook stumbled into a series of...more

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California Legislature Cracks Down on Advertising Bots Involved in Commercial Transactions and Influencing Voters in Elections

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Bot or real person? – a question most online users probably don’t ask themselves when interacting online or seeing how many followers a person has on a social media platform....more

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California Enacts Nation’s First Anti-Bot Law

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On September 28, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law S.B. 1001, which makes it illegal “for any person to use a bot to communicate or interact with another person in California online, with the intent to mislead...more

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