On 5 May 2021, the Information Society Research Institute of the University of Public Service delivered an online workshop to discuss the manuscript \u2018The regulation of social media platforms in Hungary\u2019. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the regulation of social media platforms such as Facebook in Hungary and highlights dilemmas that may arise from the modernisation\u2014or the lack thereof\u2014of the platform. The paper also addresses issues related to the limitation of free speech, censorship, and fake news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The opening remarks by Andr\u00e1s Koltay were followed by a lively exchange of views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the context of \u2018state action\u2019, a doctrine mentioned in the paper, Associate Professor Bern\u00e1t T\u00f6r\u00f6k indicated that state action as a typical US doctrine is not applicable in European legal systems, which recognise the horizontal effect of fundamental rights concerning certain matters. In a discussion on scaremongering, senior research fellow Zsolt Z\u0151di emphasised the value of further investigating the relationship between fake news and the Covid-19 pandemic in light of changes to the rules on disseminating harmful information resulting from the health crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senior researcher P\u00e1l Vad\u00e1sz observed that the level of maturity of software such as algorithmic content filtering applications does not allow adequate filtering of all harmful online content. He also emphasised the need for further study of the issue of deepfakes, the use of which will likely move well beyond that of false information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Focusing on antitrust regulations, research fellow Andr\u00e1s P\u00fcnk\u00f6sty highlighted the significance of consumer protection and competition rules and referred to the practices of the German Bundeskartellamt. He suggested that in addition to media regulation, consumer protection and competition rules can provide users with efficient protection in certain situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Research Professor Attila Menyh\u00e1rd noted that consumer protection and competition rules should not be considered silver bullets for all problems, as political content and the removal of accounts from social media platforms are matters outside the scope of consumer protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Research fellow P\u00e9ter L\u00e1body approached the issue of regulating social media platforms from a copyright perspective. Referring to his paper, he specified that the new copyright directive also has an impact on media pluralism and strengthens the position of authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, senior research fellow \u00c1rp\u00e1d Rab highlighted a trend toward views that challenge the role of government regulation. He maintained that this trend appears to be gaining momentum and raises significant questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On 5 May 2021, the Information Society Research Institute of the University of Public Service delivered an online workshop to discuss the manuscript \u2018The regulation of social media platforms in Hungary\u2019. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the regulation of social media platforms such as Facebook in Hungary and highlights dilemmas that may arise from the modernisation\u2014or the lack thereof\u2014of the platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfi.gov.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfi.gov.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfi.gov.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfi.gov.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfi.gov.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mfi.gov.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfi.gov.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfi.gov.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfi.gov.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}