This working paper discusses the impact of COVID-19 false information and the state of the
law in the United States and Europe with respect to addressing this deadly problem. The …

The COVID-19 pandemic threw our societies in dire times with deep effects on all societal
sectors and on our lives. The pandemic was accompanied by another phenomenon also …

Online disinformation has been on the rise in recent years. A digital outbreak of
disinformation has spread around the COVID-19 pandemic, often referred to as an …

There has been a disturbing rise in harmful speech during COVID-19. Many have been
shocked by the deluge of malign information, which has disseminated widely and rapidly on …

Abstract 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic marked a turning point in peoples' information
consumption habits. In an environment of extreme enforced isolation due to the COVID-19 …

The debate about tackling online misinformation and disinformation is not unique to the
COVID-19 pandemic. However, the health crisis has elevated the danger of misleading …

The spread of false information online has increased dramatically in recent years. Around
the COVID-19 pandemic, a digital epidemic of misinformation, or" infodemic," has arisen …

The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by reports of unprecedented amount of
deceptive and false online information with the potential to severely undermine individual …

If the fabrication of fake news could easily be perceived as unethical, it might be more
difficult to identify what laws fake news infringes. The global proliferation of fake news makes …

It is highly unlikely that anybody was surprised when Collins Dictionary announced that its
2017 word of the year was “fake news"(Collins Language Lovers Blog, 2017). While the term …