Media legislation in the era of digital technology...criminal liability for Misuse of social media platforms...a comparative study between laws UAE and Sudanese laws

Abstract
 This study aims to compare Sudanese and Emirati laws regarding the criminal responsibility of slander and libel offenses through the social media in the Arab countries' legislation, in order to identify the most important aspects of the criminal responsibility of these crimes through the social media in the legislation of the Arab countries.
As well as identifying the efforts exerted in the two countries to address the negative use of the Internet and the social media, including the enactment of laws and legislation, especially the legal legislation on combating cybercrime in these two countries.
  The researcher followed the analytical descriptive approach, as a holistic approach, in addition to the comparative approach. The society of this research is a sample of the laws and legislations related to the combating of information technology crimes and the reduction of cybercrime in Sudan and the United Arab Emirates, which represent the spatial framework of the research.
  For the temporal framework, the research focused on the laws, and the reduction of electronic crime in the two specific countries, issued during the period from 2006 to 2022.
 The research concluded with a series of results, the most important of which is that in order to achieve criminal responsibility, an incident involving criminal liability must occur and the condition of the criminal liability is a crime.
The individual is not responsible for all his actions but is responsible for acts that satisfy the conditions of knowledge, freedom, reason, and intention. The Sudanese law did not specify an article dedicated to abuse and reasons other than UAE law, which distinguished between reprehensibility and abuse.
 Both the Sudanese law and the UAE have not limited the commission of cybercrime to a single intermediary, but they have left the door open for the possibility of committing any of the means of information technology.
 The study recommends the need for the Sudanese legislator to allocate a legal material for abuse and youth within the law of combating cybercrime. The concerned bodies, especially the media, especially in the two countries concerned, should raise awareness of the dangers of cybercrime among different sectors of the population, especially the youth sector.