Legal Regulation of Media Activities: Modern Challenges

The media market and its digital ecosystem is rapidly growing and expanding in Russia and around the world. Messengers, social networks, and other new media are actively developing and acquiring the attributes of media. Popular bloggers are becoming opinion leaders. Anyone can see that the ability to work with artificial intelligence will soon be one of the main factors that determines the success of specific players on the media market and the trajectory of its development. In the context of its special military operation, Russia faces challenges that are common to all information markets and currently needs to protect the information space from unfair propaganda and fake news, while also conveying Russia’s position to the citizens of other countries. How will legal instruments help solve problems facing the industry and the state? What types of media activities require additional regulation and how strict should such regulation be? How useful is other countries’ experience for Russia, and do we specifically need to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in the media?