French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to introduce a law to ban fake news on the internet during French election campaigns.
Marine Le Pen, Macron’s recent challenger in the French elections tweeted out, “Who will decide if a piece of news is fake? Judges? The government?”
According to the U.K.’s Guardian, Macron said the measure would be introduced shortly, with new legislation for websites to include more transparency about sponsored content.
From the Guardian:
Under the new law, websites would have to say who is financing them and the amount of money for sponsored content would be capped.
For fake news published during election seasons, an emergency legal action could allow authorities to remove that content or even block the website, Macron said. “If we want to protect liberal democracies, we must be strong and have clear rules,” he added.
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