According to a report, last year the French created an agency to combat misinformation and fake news. Reportedly, press freedom in France was established with laws against defamation and hate speech in an 1881 law.
According to a report, a publication released Tuesday made a series of reccomendations, including teaching children to question what they perceive in social media, highlighted as a probable medium of misinformation.
From the 1980’s independent newspapers, that is those free of government interests began to be singled out, targeted and infiltrated. Now, social media is the new threat to authoratative regimes. Reportedly, since 2018 Facebook Meta’s vice president for global affairs and communications is sir Nick Clegg, former leader of the Liberal democrats in Britain. According to a report, Nick deals with any complaints or dissent thought to be from authoratative regimes. Reportedly, Facebook Meta has been receiving a lot of unwarrented criticism.