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Precedent Judgment: Liability of users on social networks under the Defamation Law

February 2020

The Supreme Court recently ruled that social media users who click on the button of a defamatory post may be liable under the Israeli Defamation Law; while emphasizing that users who just the same post should not be considered liable. Find out more details on the new ruling and its implications in the latest (Hebrew) legal update by our Media and Telecoms department