Partidos políticos y desinformación. ¿Pueden los gobiernos defender la verdad? Consideraciones sobre la “Comisión permanente contra la desinformación” del Gobierno español y otras alternativas

Following the 2016 US elections and the scandal around Facebook and Cambridge Analytica in 2018, the EU and several of its members promoted initiatives to fight disinformation. This paper focuses on one instrument, the "Permanent Commission against disinformation", created by the Governmen...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Hernando Masdeu, Javier
Format: article
Publication Date:2022
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Villanueva (UV)
Repository:DIGI-UV. Repositorio Digital de la Universidad Villanueva
OAI Identifier:oai:digiuv.villanueva.edu:20.500.12766/405
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12766/405
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Derecho Constitucional
Disinformation
Fake News
Freedom of speech
Democracy
Right to truth
Desinformación
Libertad de expresión
Democracia
Derecho a la verdad
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Summary:Following the 2016 US elections and the scandal around Facebook and Cambridge Analytica in 2018, the EU and several of its members promoted initiatives to fight disinformation. This paper focuses on one instrument, the "Permanent Commission against disinformation", created by the Government of Spain in 2020. It analyzes its background, parliamentary debates and early work, as well as similar instru-ments in Europe and USA. And it is hypothesized that this type of tool may not be an adequate solution to the problem.