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Social Media Laws: What Are They and How Do They Impact Brands?

Contently - Strategy

The FCC primarily focuses on telecommunications, and the FTC’s oversight is mostly confined to ensuring truthful advertising and protecting consumer privacy. Brands distancing themselves from platforms like X for ethical reasons may face legal risks, including being implicated in high-stakes lawsuits.

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RepUs: Top 10 Reputation Threats and Impact in 2025

Reputation Us

RISK 3: REGULATORY COMPLIANCE & ETHICAL VIOLATIONS Threat : Increased regulatory scrutiny on matters like data usage, financial practices, and consumer rights exposes companies to fines and legal repercussions. Impact : Companies failing to meet ESG expectations risk public backlash, divestments, and difficulty attracting talent.

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Ethical Technology: Everyone’s Responsibility

Institute for Public Relations

Deloitte examined how ethical principles are currently being applied to emerging technology. A survey of 1,794 business and technical professionals actively involved in either developing, managing, or consuming emerging technologies was conducted. Key findings include: 1.) Key findings include: 1.)

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11 ways Social Listening will Transform your Communications Strategy & Performance

Onclusive

You can benchmark brand sentiment by topic to understand how consumers perceive your organisation in relation to key social issues such as sustainability, diversity, and data security. You can go further by analysing competitor activity and consumer discussions to see how you compare. This will reveal unmet customer needs.

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Sustainability no longer just an ethical choice—it’s now a business opportunity

Agility PR Solutions

New Forrester research finds that governments, investors, consumers, and companies worldwide are stepping up to invest in and embrace more sustainable solutions to combat climate change. The post Sustainability no longer just an ethical choice—it’s now a business opportunity appeared first on Agility PR Solutions.

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This Week in PR Ethics (3/9/23): Ethics of AI Pitching, Freedom of Speech, Psyops, and Resume Bias

Ethical Voices

This week there are more than a few public relations ethics issues and some of them are real doozies. Amiga: Ethics of AI Pitching – Thinking about the ethical use of generative AI in public relations and marketing has been consuming every spare minute of my day. Check them out below!

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United we Brand? Top Reads on Corporate Activism

Flack's Revenge

It was a more innocent time and easier for businesses to step up to the plate when government was not doing its job. Brand managers and PR pros should be actively searching for ways to express their brand values to consumers… Think about Patagonia’s campaign to save protected national park land. Should brands take a stand?

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