Ethan Shattock

Very grateful to be invited to present my research on misinformation and human rights to the Committee of Ministers‘ Deputies at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg yesterday.

Fantastic meeting on 'Freedom of Expression, Disinformation, and Elections: The Role of Media in Election Integrity.’

Spoke to FRANCE 24 about Kneecap and freedom of Expression this morning. Also discussed UK clamp down on Palestine activism and Sally Rooney. Timely topics on today of all days.

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Be honest, did you buy the swords for yourself?

I did not imagine I would be lucky enough to be labelled a ‘misinformation pseudoscientist’ and part of the ‘pro censorship left’ by Republicans in the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, but I shall be adding this to my bio with pride

🚨New open access article in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, (Oxford University Press) entitled:

'Disinformation and Democracy on the Docket: Reformulating the Approach to Electoral Disinformation under the ECHR.' 🧵

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We hope to stimulate and provoke debate about free elections, election falsehoods, and the future of positive obligations in the Strasbourg Court.

We thread our arguments through the analytical prism of Bradshaw and others v. The United Kingdom. With this judgment being released this week, our arguments are extremely timely, in the event that this case is referred to the Grand Chamber and also for inevitable future cases which are to follow.

Katie Pentney and I make the normative case for the ECtHR to rethink its analytical approach to the right to free elections under Article 3 of Protocol 1 in cases involving disinformation and Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI).

🚨New open access article in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, (Oxford University Press) entitled:

'Disinformation and Democracy on the Docket: Reformulating the Approach to Electoral Disinformation under the ECHR.' 🧵

t.co/jS5oiFS3cV

I was thrilled to be cited in the European Court of Human Rights judgment of Bradshaw and Others vs the United Kingdom yesterday.

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Would be funny if it wasn’t so horrific ! 🥵

Kneecap terror case is 'pivotal' for free speech, experts say 'The more they come after Kneecap the louder they will get,' say the band's legal team after bail on terror charge.

Glad to be quoted in this headline and article.

We await to see what August 20 brings.

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Capping Freedom of Expression? Assessing Kneecap’s Controversy under the ECHR On Friday 23rd May, the Irish-language rap trio Kneecap headlined London’s Wide Awake music festival at Brixton’s Broxwell Park. Attended by 20,000 fans, this marked the Belfast group’s first stage pe...

Capping Freedom of Expression? Assessing Kneecap’s Controversy under the ECHR | by Ethan Shattock

Well worth a read from @ethanshattock.bsky.social on the Kneecap case, the complexity of the ECtHR's freedom of expression jurisprudence and it's increasingly frequent invocation of Art 17 on the abuse of rights where expression is connected to banned groups:

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Thanks for sharing Colin!

Important point ! Thanks :)

Capping Freedom of Expression? Assessing Kneecap’s Controversy under the ECHR On Friday 23rd May, the Irish-language rap trio Kneecap headlined London’s Wide Awake music festival at Brixton’s Broxwell Park. Attended by 20,000 fans, this marked the Belfast group’s first stage pe...

Big day for Kneecap and freedom of expression next week.

I’ve published analysis of Mo Chara’s provocative expression from an ECHR perspective: @ejiltalk.bsky.social

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I hope you don’t need to have seen the sixteen previous Mickey films to understand the new one

Academic me: it’s deeply troubling to see animal misinformation go under the radar, people see ostensibly ‘cute’ videos and ignore the irresponsible and misleading nature of the video.

Non-academic me: Omg bunny, chonk, cute, like.

@ethanshattock.bsky.social notes that the recently approved code of conduct on disinformation matters because it codifies this as a systemic risk under the DSA. He does worry, however, about insufficient references to freedom of expression protections

Completely naive to think that this is practically achievable. If the funding isn’t there to go to existing conferences, how are people going to have the ability to ‘build’ their own?

At Charles University in Prague today for the ReMeD conference "Regulation and Accountability in a Hybrid Media System: Content Creators, Algorithmic Plurality, and Online Platforms." Presented alongside some fascinating talks!

Summary of the European Court of Human Rights press release entitled "No interim measures issued against annulment of Romanian presidential election"

The European Court of Human Rights has decided not to issue “interim measures” against the annulment of the presential election in Romania.

Full press release via hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng-press?i=...

#HumanRights #ECHR #Rule39

Electoral Dysfunction: Romania’s Election Annulment, Disinformation, and ECHR Positive Obligations to Combat Election Irregularities In a historical year for global democratic elections, Romania’s presidential election is the latest European election to have elicited controversy. Days prior to the scheduled second round of votin…

Electoral Dysfunction: Romania’s Election Annulment, Disinformation, and ECHR Positive Obligations to Combat Election Irregularities | by @ethanshattock.bsky.social

Electoral Dysfunction: Romania’s Election Annulment, Disinformation, and ECHR Positive Obligations to Combat Election Irregularities In a historical year for global democratic elections, Romania’s presidential election is the latest European election to have elicited controversy. Days prior to the scheduled second round of votin…

My latest blog has been published today in the European Journal of International Law Blog

‘Electoral Dysfunction: Romania’s Election Annulment, Disinformation, and ECHR Positive Obligations to Combat Election Irregularities’

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Delighted to see my latest peer-reviewed article published in the latest volume of the SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology and Society.

Available open access here

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My highlight of 2024 was defending my PhD thesis in March. It is now available open access if you want some background reading about European human rights case law, free elections, and online disinformation!

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No joy this year at the QUB law Xmas jumper contest but I’ll keep ‘chipping’ away

Injustice

It was great to be invited to speak about disinformation, gender, and EU law yesterday for the event ‘From Behind Closed Doors to Online Spaces: Confronting Gender-Based Violence on International Human Rights Day.’ Fantastic speakers organised by the Law Society of Northern Ireland