Fake News Laws During Covid-19

This article ‘Rush to pass ‘fake news’ laws during Covid-19 intensifying global media freedom challenges’ by the International Press Institute discusses how "few terms have become so engrained in global political discourse in the last half decade than that of so-called “fake news.” The widely used yet ill-defined phrase has become a messy shorthand enveloping everything from social media rumours, to online political disinformation, to state-sponsored internet propaganda."

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