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Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

How to Report an Impersonation Account

Help – someone is impersonating me! Social media is a funny thing – it allows people to present their lives in a very articulated way through pictures, videos, and other personal information. While content is usually posted...more

Blattel Communications

Let’s Get to Thread-ing? Eh, Maybe Not

Remember all the excitement when Threads was launched? Meta, the platform’s parent company, announced that more than 30M people joined in less than 24 hours after it opened to the public. The app, which for now requires and...more

Saiber LLC

Social Media Influencer Sues Facebook and Twitter

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In Hart v. Facebook Inc., et al., the United States District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed a social media influencer’s lawsuit against Facebook and Twitter for allegedly violating his First Amendment...more

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A Possible ‘High Noon’ for Social Media Platforms Looms at the Supreme Court

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The August 13, 2021 Trending Law Blog post discussed how, in NetChoice, LLC v. Attorney General, State of Florida, the United States District court for the Northern District of Florida enjoined Florida from enforcing a law...more

Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC

Your Brand On Social Media

Many American businesses, regardless of size, realize the value of having a positive social media presence. Recent surveys and marketing research show that “social commerce” has grown steadily since the pandemic started in...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

OOR Rules that Elected Official’s Social Media Accounts are Records of the Agency

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In Schultz v. Montgomery County, AP 2020-1280, the Requester sought records related to a County Commissioner’s social media accounts, including sent and received Twitter Direct Messages and private Facebook messages, all...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Public Officials' New Social Media Open Meeting Law

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California's AB 992 Analyzed in PublicCEO by BB&K's HongDao Nguyen and Albert Maldonado - Clicking the “like” button has become second nature. Whether it’s a thumbs up, hug or sad face on Facebook, or a heart reaction...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Shaking Up The Internet: An Update

We wrote recently about proposed changes to laws governing content on the internet. Washington has now proposed even more changes that could affect policing of the internet and social media. In brief, Section 230(c) of the...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Social Media Regulation: Advertising, Marketing and the FTC

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Holland & Knight hosted Michael Ostheimer, a senior attorney for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for a webinar presentation on Oct. 17, 2019. Mr. Ostheimer has been with the FTC for nearly three decades, currently serving...more

International Lawyers Network

Technology has Changed How We Build Relationships. Lawyers, are you Ready?

We know and are comfortable with the idea that the legal industry is a business of relationships. Lawyers do good work, their clients talk about it (hopefully) and that brings them other clients. That’s the basic principle...more

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[Webinar] Social Media Discovery™: Find the Smoking Gun - April 30th, 1:00pm ET

With billions of active accounts across multiple social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and more, user-generated content is being created at an incredible pace. Social media information is...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

Employers Beware: Can You Legally Terminate an Employee for a Controversial Facebook Post?

In this era of social media, it has become quite common for employees to post information online about their personal lives, their political views, and information related to their jobs. Social networks have increasingly...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

Politicians in Cyberspace: Fourth Circuit Holds That First Amendment Bars Officials From Blocking Users On Social Media

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The Fourth Circuit has held that a Virginia politician who temporarily barred a constituent from her Facebook page violated the First Amendment. The ruling is the first appellate guidance analyzing the knotty issue of whether...more

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Courts Rule on Cellphone, Social Media Privacy

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On June 22, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police usually need a search warrant before trying to track a person’s movements using cellphone data, even though the data is in the hands of a third party. In a 5-4 decision in...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

“Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!”: How to get yourself fired for a Facebook post

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Social media has created a minefield of concerns for both employees and employers. The news is full of stories of employees documenting their questionable off-duty conduct on social media, or posting comments containing...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Federal Court rules that Elected Official Violated First Amendment when Banning Commenter on the Official’s Public Facebook Page

The District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issued a recent decision that that should remind public officials and employees that if they have social media websites (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), the websites may be...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Social Links: Google Maps gets social; Twitter puts trolls in time out; today’s teens take to chat rooms

New York City’s Conflicts of Interest Board has issued guidelines prohibiting elected officials from using official social media accounts for political purposes or having their staff draft content for their personal social...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Think Twice Before Tweeting up a Storm

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One of the more memorable lines from 1989’s Steel Magnolias is “if you can’t say anything nice about anybody, come sit by me.” That sentiment— referred to as “schadenfreude” in German — is amplified on social media, and this...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Perils: Identify Theft and Social Networking

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Identity theft through social networking is on the rise. Hacked accounts may be used to impersonate you and potentially cause reputational harm, or may even link the hacker to your financial account information and...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

CFPB launches Spanish-language Twitter and Facebook accounts

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The CFPB recently announced that it has launched official Spanish-language Twitter and Facebook accounts.  The CFPB previously launched a Spanish-language website and recently updated the translations on the “Ask CFPB”...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Friday Links—The most disliked movie trailer ever; using social media to plan trips and land job interviews; and more.

Facebook users spend more time on the platform than they spend pursuing any other leisure activity, except TV. Indeed, 1/16th of the average user’s waking time is spent on the platform. The most disliked movie trailer in...more

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Lawyers, Can We Please Talk About Auto Direct and Private Messages?

Okay, raise your hands if, out of the blue, you’ve received a private message on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook that was so disconnected from your world that you wondered what that person was thinking....more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Social Media and Practice: Questions Attorneys Should Ask Now

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Social media users number in the billions. Facebook counts over 1.4 billion users, LinkedIn has 347 million members, Instagram has 300 million, Twitter has nearly 290 million, and YouTube reports more than a billion users....more

Baker Donelson

Social Media Compliance Policies: Your Company Needs One

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Use of social media is ubiquitous in today's society. This is astounding when you think back to 2004 and realize that social media did not exist then. Fast forward ten years and by September 2014, 58% of all American adults...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

Discovery Rules Continue to Evolve for Cases Involving Social Media

Your social media content is not only susceptible to hacking; it’s also susceptible to disclosure requests from civil litigants (see our Sept. 14 blog post for more details) and even prosecutors without your consent if they...more

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