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  • Meri Baghdasaryan

Sanchez v. France: Are the expanded liability rules foreseeable for social media users?

August 04, 2023

by Meri Baghdasaryan Earlier in July 2023, a blog post by Jacob van de Kerkhof discussed the shortcomings of the recent Grand Chamber judgment in Sanchez v. France, in which the Court expanded its intermediary liability rules for hate speech posted by third parties to individual users of social media platforms. This piece will not […]

  • Jacob van de Kerkhof

Sanchez v France: The Expansion of Intermediary Liability in the Context of Online Hate Speech

July 17, 2023

by Jacob van de Kerkhof Self-confident people are usually not too concerned about what other people post on their social media pages. But they should be. On 15 May 2023, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’ or ‘the Court’) released its judgment in the case of Sanchez v France, following […]