In addition to being the world’s greatest communications medium, the Internet is one of the most effective conduits for fraud,...

As social media has been “blurring the lines,” the Federal Trade Commission decided to make one thing starkly clear: false endorsements,...

We’re suffering from “information disorder,” according to a report recently issued through the Aspen Institute. That’s not news. But how...

When deepfakes emerged on the Internet, people gasped at this new tool for deception and wondered how they could ever separate fake from...

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals recently had to decide a sensitive and difficult issue: Can you use a false identity to deceive...

On November 24, 2020, the U.S. government’s National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) and Amazon announced a...

We may be on our own in the world of internet misinformation, but we don’t lack resources. An expert industry is developing about...

Political misinformation on the Internet is likely to continue, and our previous posts on laws, business practices and reforms have made...

Existing U.S. laws don’t prevent misinformation on the Internet, as we have seen, nor do social media companies keep it off their...

Can we rely on social media companies to vet and clean up their content, so that misinformation doesn’t pollute the 2020 political...

As we enter the 2020 election season, Americans are likely to be flooded with misinformation and disinformation, particularly on social...

In the strange multi-national world of Internet commerce, it’s not always clear where lawsuits can be brought. And a recent decision...

The report of Attorney General William Barr’s Department of Justice on Section 230, the basic American internet law, takes an interesting...

Writers of blogs and other short online works will be able to register their copyrights more easily in a new procedure approved by the...

The coronavirus crisis has heightened both the need for reliable information and existing concerns about the growth of misinformation and...

Don’t count on President Trump’s executive order overturning or significantly restricting the statute that has governed internet freedom...