SEC Provides Guidelines for Use of Social Media in Compliance with Regulation Fair Disclosure

Simon Riveles Dodd-Frank, Regulation Fair Disclosure, SEC, Social Media

By Ryan Finn and Simon Riveles In the age of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, companies and their executives are increasingly using social media to interact with customers, investors and the public. This rapid change in the way public companies disseminate information has presented challenges for the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC” or the “Commission”) in its application of Regulation FD (Fair Disclosure), which requires …