Macron Wants To Ban 'Fake News' During Elections

[Aeolus451]

palou said:

Aeolus451 said:

Sounds like something a state inching closer to totalitarianism would do.

"Fake News" is very subjective and a censoring campaign against it could be applied to anything the ruling party doesn't like.

The main proposal was to make sourcing an obligation. That's pretty good, I think.

It's still flaky as hell. We're talking about controlling information. Most of the established news is left leaning and they've already shown they have to qualms about spinning stories to fit their agenda. This just sounds like mainstream news wants to cut out out smaller news sources.