Waves of parliament´s around the world are looking into the problem of “fake news”, including the UK Parliament¹ (Green Paper: Internet Safety Strategy and Fake News Inquiry), the US Senate² and the Singaporean Parliament³ (Green Paper: Deliberate Online Falsehoods). In early January 2018, the French President Macron said he would present a new law in order to fight the spread of “fake news”, which he said threatened democracies⁴. The Canadian Communications Security Establishment (CSE), in its report Cyber Threats to Canada´s Democratic Process, the first threat assessment of this kind in the world to be shared with the public said the Canadian Minister of Democratic Institutions⁵, states that: Continue reading Countering “fake news” →