Cyprus Proposes Five-Year Prison Sentences for Spreading ‘Fake News’
If passed, the amendment will reclassify disinformation offences from civil to criminal, with a maximum penalty of five years in jail.
If passed, the amendment will reclassify disinformation offences from civil to criminal, with a maximum penalty of five years in jail.
RTL presenter Maurice Gajda has been suspended by the German broadcaster for allegedly fabricating a post by former AfD leader Frauke Petry.
The country is also working to pass a “Fake News” bill that would have far-reaching implications for freedom of political speech.
The German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach had been sued for spreading ‘fake news’ for his earlier claims about the safety of COVID vaccines, but a court excused these statements as free speech.
I wanted to read irrefutable evidence that the Russian economy had suffered deeply and perhaps irreversibly from the war. As I kept reading the report, my hopes fell flat. This is nothing more than an academic propaganda pamphlet.
Former ombudswoman Denisova has since admitted having “maybe exaggerated” in her stories, but wanted to “achieve the goal of convincing the world to provide weapons and pressure Russia.”
Particularly in Britain, the New Culture Forum’s film is likely to evoke plaintive sentiments, if not downright fury. Indeed, the UK Conservative government has altogether less to show for itself than the Hungarians do after an equivalent period of now twelve years in Downing Street.
When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, media was brimming with stories about how he had somehow colluded with Russia to gain some sort
The government-commissioned report is concerned about what it calls the “disappearance of the common systemic space.” But it identifies the problem without trying to find the multiple reasons for this space’s absence.
New speech-restriction laws, whether national or at the EU level, would amplify a disturbing trend underway in Europe, where the right to free expression is gradually being replaced with a new legal default. What speech is not explicitly permitted, is banned.
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