The Impact of Digital Platforms and Social Media on Freedom of Expression and Pluralism – in specific terms

Abstract

This paper aims at providing a comprehensive report on the conference titled The Impact of Digital Platforms and Social Media on the Freedom of Expression and Pluralism held on 23 November 2021 in Budapest and organized by the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law. This conference report addresses one plenary and two sessions of the event in separate chapters. The symposium was part of a conference series organized within the framework of the Central European Professors’ Network. This network operates with an active contribution of thirty-four professors from seven Central European countries: Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. The Central European Professors’ Network divided comprehensive international scientific research into four groups. The conference presented the outcomes of one of these research groups, simply referred to as the social media research group.