Last year, we published the book “#FakeYou, Fake News y Desinformación - Gobiernos, partidos políticos, mass media, corporaciones, grandes fortunas: monopolios de la manipulación informativa y recortes de la libertad de expresión” [#FakeYou, Fake News and Disinformation – Governments, political parties, mass media, corporations, big fortunes: the monopoly of information manipulation and threats to freedom of expression] (https://xnet-x.net/informe-fake-news-desinformacion/).
Here we present the proposal for regulation that leads on from that research. It aims to provide an off-the-shelf model for legislators.
As we showed in the aforementioned book, the public and legislative policies used in the fight against disinformation that have been pursued both in Spain and in other countries because of (or we should say, with the excuse of) the so-called “new” phenomenon of fake news, often actually serve to distract from the real solution:
