8.4 Recent Trends

1. The digital-transition's law (the platform era): the online-news's registration-and- regulation (the directives (the portal's list (the registration's normalisation)); the social-media's governance (the bills-and-directives (the take-down-and-liability regimes (the LAW5705-U's depth))); the OTT's entry (the streaming's regulation (U3.6's face)).2. The misinformation-and-disinformation (the era's core problem): the fake-news's regulation-vs-freedom (the criminalisation's risk (the truth's ministry's dystopia) vs the harm'sreality (the election-and-the-riot faces)); the fact-checking's rise (the institutional (the newsroom's desks) + the platform's labelling (the algorithm's amelioration)).3. The media-economy's faces (the sustainability's crisis): the advertising's migration (the digital-giants' absorption (the newsroom's shrinkage)); the state-advertising's power (the leverage's risk (the media-independence's economics)); the media-consolidation-and-the- ownership's transparency (the cross-holdings' question (the public's right-to-know-the-owner)).4. The journalists'-safety faces: the impunity-era's record (the conflict's victims (the 2015- era's post-truth faces (the journalists'-killing cases' lore (the investigation-and-justice's gap))); the harassment's digital face (the online-abuse (the women-journalists' targeting (the silencing's effect)))); the safety-machinery (the monitoring-bodies; the Working-Journalists' implementation's gap (the 2.2's economic face)).5. The AI's arrival (the frontier (the LAW5705-U's companion)): the generative-AI's content (the deepfake's regulation (the synthetic-media's labelling)); the AI-journalism (the automation's ethics (the accuracy's machine-risk)); the copyright's AI face (the training-data's debate (the U5's new frontier)).6. The comparative-reform's agenda (the exam's normative): the media-council-bill debates (the 2018-era's controversy (the government-controlled-council's risk (the stakeholder's resistance))); the decriminalisation's advocacy (the defamation's civil-move (U7.1)); the right-to-information's deepening (the proactive-disclosure's…