Online safety & content laws in Liberia (2026)

Both the House of Representatives and Senate passed the Cybercrime Act 2025; as of January 2026 it was cleared for presidential signature. It criminalises unauthorised computer access, digital fraud, identity theft, illegal data interception, and online harassment, and creates a Liberia National Cyber Security Council (LNCC). Whistleblower protections for good-faith reporters of cybercrime are included.

The Liberia Telecommunications Authority is the independent statutory regulator for telecommunications and internet service providers. It manages spectrum, licensing of ISPs, the .lr country-code top-level domain, and consumer-protection complaints, but has no explicit online-content or platform-safety mandate.

Liberia has no enacted data protection legislation and no supervisory authority. A draft 'Act for the Collection, Processing, Transmission, Storage, Protection, and Use of Personal Information' was validated by stakeholders in late 2024 and submitted to the legislature by President Boakai in 2025, but had not been enacted as of mid-2026.

Liberia's Electronic Transactions Law provides a baseline legal framework for electronic records, signatures, and data retention but does not address content moderation, platform liability, or user-safety duties on online services.

Liberia has no enacted framework governing platform liability for third-party content, no mandatory age-verification requirements for online services, and no designated online-safety regulator. Civil society and CIPESA submitted to the UN Universal Periodic Review in 2025 highlighting these structural gaps and risks to children online.

Civil society organisations and the US State Department's 2024 human-rights report note that existing laws contain overbroad provisions that have been used against journalists and activists online. The Cybercrime Act 2025 drew criticism for language that could chill free expression if applied to online speech.