---
title: "Social Media Platform Compliance"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/media-entertainment-and-sports-law-en/social-media-platform-compliance-en"
field: "Media, Entertainment & Sports Law"
description: "Social media platform compliance: terms reflecting the law, declaration, adequacy and commission oversight. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-02-15"
updated: "2026-11-07"
publisher: "Legal.Ge"
---

# Social Media Platform Compliance

> Source: Legal.Ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/media-entertainment-and-sports-law-en/social-media-platform-compliance-en

Compliance with social-media platform rules is not regulated in Georgia by a separate social-media statute — it is governed by the video-sharing-platform chapter of the broadcasting law, which is built on the transposition of the European model rather than on other foreign frameworks. The platform's own community rules are not a free-floating document: to fulfil the obligations established by law, they must be reflected precisely in those rules. This page explains the framework of obligations on the basis of articles 45-6, 45-7 and 45-8 of the law.

## The Platform's Mandatory Mechanisms

Under article 45-6, to fulfil the obligations provided for by the law a video-sharing-platform provider must implement and develop measures and mechanisms: reflect the law's requirements toward users' generated videos, programmes and audiovisual commercial communication in the terms and rules of the service; create a function through which uploaders of videos can declare that a video contains audiovisual commercial communication, in so far as they know or should know of it; create and operate transparent and convenient mechanisms for the user, so that the user can notify or flag to the provider material placed in breach of the law, and also assess that material through the rating existing on the platform.

The platform must also create a functioning system through which it explains to users the consequences of notifications and flags; establish age-verification and parental-control systems toward material that may harm the physical, mental or moral development of minors; develop transparent, easy-to-use and effective procedures for the consideration of users' complaints and the taking of corresponding decisions; and ensure effective measures and instruments in the direction of media literacy, together with raising users' awareness of them.

Beyond the flagging and rating mechanisms the law also regulates the platform's declaratory duties: the terms of the service must be drafted so that the user knows what is restricted, how the notification system operates and what consequences follow. The complaint procedures must be transparent, easy to use and effective — this requirement is aimed precisely at the situations where the author of the material or the injured party contests the platform's decision.

Nor are the media-literacy measures a mere educational gesture: the law regulates their provision as an obligation of the platform, and raising users' awareness is part of the list. A compliance programme is thus not confined to technical functions — it also covers substantive matters.

## The Standard of Adequacy

Article 45-7 sets the standard: the measures implemented by the provider must be adequate and proportionate. Their conditions and scope are determined according to the nature of the material placed on the platform — taking into account the presumed harm caused by the placement, the characteristics of the groups to be protected, and the legitimate interests of providers, of uploading users and of society.

The adequacy of the measures is assessed by the commission, including by considering the provider's size, the nature of the service offered and the number of users — the same requirement weighs differently on a small platform and on a service built for millions of users.

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### Who writes the platform's rules?

The platform — under the law's requirements, which must be reflected in them.

### What is the declaration function?

The uploader's open declaration of commercial content.

### What does age verification cover?

Material that may harm the development of minors.

### Are requirements identical for all platforms?

No — adequacy and proportionality are assessed by size and audience.

### Who supervises?

The commission.