At present, social media is not sufficiently regulated. Much of the regulation is left to the social media platform owners, the global tech companies, to regulate. Whilst the social media platforms have their own rules, for example Facebook has its own ‘Community Standards’ and Twitter has ‘The Twitter Rules’, such rules do not adequately prevent offences being committed on social media.
Charities must be prepared to deal with matters quickly and prevent escalation as far as possible. National law firm Stone King's Jonathan Copping sets out some practical tips on handling social media issues and outlines a number of different offences that could be committed by posting content on social media in his article, which can be read in full here here.