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ABA Legal Fact Check explores social media platforms and freedom of speech

“A new ABA Legal Fact Check released today examines the case and statutory law allowing social media companies and their sites to ban or suspend individuals for promoting falsehoods of hatred. In recent weeks, those who have found themselves kicked off social media platforms have included then-President Donald J. Trump and several of his allies, in …

Subjects: Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

Drugs for Sale Plague Social Media Platforms

Digital Citizens Alliance: “Social media platforms continue to have difficulty removing illegal offers of opioids, steroids and COVID-19 “vaccines.” Even after they have been alerted of specific posts and long past when they have made public pledges to do a better job of making their services safe for U.S. consumers, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Telegram …

Subjects: Internet, Legal Research, Social Media

Here’s the whole box and dice on the OED March 2021 update

OED Blog – “Well ding-dong, it’s time for OED‘s quarterly update for March 2021, in which nearly 750 existing entries have been subjected to the freshening attentions of our team of researchers, editors, etymologists, and bibliographers, and over 700 new words, senses, phrases, and compounds have been added to the Dictionary. Buckle up, and we’ll …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management

ABA Issues Cautionary Ethics Guidance On Virtual Law Practices

LawSites: “The American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility today issued a formal ethics opinion providing guidance on virtual law practices. The opinion (Formal Opinion 498) makes clear that the Model Rules of Professional Conduct permit lawyers to conduct their practices virtually, but it urges caution, competence and diligence with regard to …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing

Adopting DOI in Legal Citation: A Roadmap for the Legal Academy

Craigle, Valeri, Adopting DOI in Legal Citation: A Roadmap for the Legal Academy (March 8, 2021). Legal Reference Services Quarterly (2021 Forthcoming), University of Utah College of Law Research Paper Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3800465 “A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a unique string of numbers, letters, and symbols used to identify web-based information assets …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Federal Guidance Could Help Mitigate Cybersecurity Risks in 401(k) and Other Retirement Plans

Defined Contribution Plans: Federal Guidance Could Help Mitigate Cybersecurity Risks in 401(k) and Other Retirement Plans, GAO-21-25, Published: Feb 11, 2021. Publicly Released: Mar 15, 2021. “In their role administering private sector employer-sponsored defined contribution (DC) retirement plans, such as 401(k) plans, plan sponsors and their service providers—record keepers, third party administrators, custodians, and payroll …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, ID Theft, Legal Research

Small group plays big role in pushing vaccine skepticism, Facebook study finds

Washington Post: “Facebook is conducting a vast behind-the-scenes study of doubts expressed by U.S. users about vaccines, a major project that attempts to probe and teach software to identify the medical attitudes of millions of Americans, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. The research is a large-scale attempt to understand the spread of …

Subjects: Congress, Health Care, Legal Research, Legislation, Medicine, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 14, 2021

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 14, 2021 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …

Subjects: Congress, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy, Social Media

Malgorithm – How Instagram’s algorithm publishes misinformation and hate to millions during a pandemic

“Using real examples of posts recommended to users by Instagram, we expose how the platform’s algorithm is publishing dangerous misinformation about Covid and vaccines in the midst of a pandemic, as well as QAnon and antisemitic conspiracy theories. We set out clear steps by which Instagram’s owner, Facebook, can put people over profit, fix its …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

Cleaning Corporate Governance

Frankenreiter, Jens and Hwang, Cathy and Nili, Yaron and Talley, Eric L., Cleaning Corporate Governance (February 11, 2021). University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Forthcoming, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2021-05, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2021-16, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No.644, Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research