1 Introduction
Billions of people from around the world connect with one another online via social media. It is in no way hyperbolic to compare how the internet, and in particular social media, has transformed the way we interact and share information at all hours of the day with the way in which the invention of the printing press transformed on a global level the ease and speed with which people were able to access the written word and share information.
The number of active users of the six most popular online social networks combined is estimated at about 10 billion (Statista 2022). The general absence of a legally recognised, global infrastructure of intermediaries online has allowed the development of a “free-for-all” ...
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