Societal costs of “Fake news” in the Digital Single Market
Study
14-12-2018
This in-depth analysis explores the mechanisms of “fake news” and its societal costs in the Digital Single Market. It describes the risks to the integrity of information and to the integrity of elections. It highlights the roles of the various actors involved in the production and amplification of such information disorders. Finally, it outlines responses that are being tested in different parts of Europe to deal with the issue. The document has been provided by Policy Department A at the request of the European Parliament Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
Study
External author
Prof. Dr. Divina Frau-Meigs
About this document
Publication type
Keyword
- access to information
- communications
- disinformation
- dissemination of information
- documentation
- economic geography
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- electoral procedure and voting
- Europe
- GEOGRAPHY
- information and information processing
- information highway
- Internet site
- LAW
- organisation of elections
- political geography
- political propaganda
- POLITICS
- politics and public safety
- Russia
- self-regulation
- social media
- sources and branches of the law