2020 Volume 8 Issue 3 Pages 47-63
The issue of fake news is influenced by various information technologies in the modern era, and there are aspects that shake the premise of the concept of a “marketplace of ideas”. The harm caused from the viewpoint of this paper by “fake news (disinformation)” is, first, the impact on the “elections”, second, the impact on the speech space that basis our democratic political system, and third, the impact on human rights. The solutions to these problems include content regulation against speakers of disinformation and online platforms. However, it should be noted that these may destroy the marketplace of ideas, rather than solve the problem.
Instead, the paper discusses of “Campaign silence” regulations in election campaigns, subsidies to existing media outlets, and approaches to privacy and personal data protection (e.g. GDPR).
