Legal and criminal prosecution of disinformation in Spain in the context of the European Union

  1. Espaliú-Berdud, Carlos 1
  1. 1 Universidad Nebrija
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    Universidad Nebrija

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03tzyrt94

Zeitschrift:
El profesional de la información

ISSN: 1386-6710,  1699-2407

Datum der Publikation: 2022

Titel der Ausgabe: Crisis en el espacio público

Ausgabe: 31

Nummer: 3

Art: Artikel

DOI: 10.3145/EPI.2022.MAY.22 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen Access editor

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Zusammenfassung

Disinformation poses a very important and growing risk to our society, either alone or in association with other hybrid threats, which is being addressed at both the international and European Union (EU) as well as national level. Within the EU, a multidisciplinary and cooperative approach has been advocated between all the actors involved, in contrast to the strong regulatory perspective traditionally adopted in the history of European integration within the EU framework. For this reason, together with the inherent limitations imposed by the nature of the right to freedom of expression and information on any possible administrative censorship or criminal punishment, Spain has adopted only one recent regulation (Decree PCM/1030/2020) to establish the Spanish procedure to combat disinformation as required by European directive. Moreover, although fake news cannot be prosecuted directly in Spain outside the scope of crimes against the market and consumers, fake news can include very different types of criminal offence depending on the content and the intention with which it is disseminated. We illustrate these possibilities through some recent judicial decisions on this matter and declarations by the Office of the Attorney-General. It remains to be seen whether this soft approach to combating disinformation will be sufficient to combat this new plague on our contemporary society effectively. 

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Este artículo es un resultado del proyecto Mediatized EU, Mediatized discourses on europeanization and their representations in public perceptions. Unión Europea H2020 Research and Innovation Programme, Grant agreement no 101004534. SC6, Transformations, 2020.https://ror.org/00k4n6c32

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