[Air-L] The perils of legally defining disinformation

[Joly MacFie]

>From Columbia Global FoE <https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/>


●  *The Internet Policy Review* has published a paper “The perils of
legally defining disinformation,”
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by
Ronan Ó Fathaigh, Natali Helberger, and Naomi Appelman, of the Institute
for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. The authors
begin by observing that “EU policy considers disinformation to be harmful
content, rather than illegal content,” while “EU member states have
recently been making disinformation illegal.”  Considering that context,
the “article discusses the definitions that form the basis of EU
disinformation policy, and analyses national legislation in EU member
states applicable to the definitions of disinformation, in light of freedom
of expression and the proposed Digital Services Act.” It further explores
“the perils of defining disinformation in EU legislation, and including
provisions on online platforms being required to remove illegal content,
which may end up being applicable to overbroad national laws criminalising
false news and false information.”

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