Legal and Regulatory Measures to Reduce the Defamation on Social Media

Abstract

This study aims to explain the most important legal and regulatory measures to limit defamation through social media sites. The study included an explanation of the meaning of defamation in general and electronic defamation in particular, a statement of the ruling on defamation, the means of defamation in the past and present, and a statement of the punishment for defamation in Islamic law and in the Saudi system, in addition to To explain the most important means to reduce defamation on social media sites.