Macron’s War on 'Fake News'
The French president wants to ban the spread of misinformation during the country’s election campaigns—but who will decide which news is fake?
World leaders and information gatekeepers have struggled to determine how best to address the epidemic of “fake news.” French President Emmanuel Macron joined the struggle this week, providing his own solution for how to curb the spread of misinformation online: Make it illegal.
In a Wednesday address to journalists at the Élysée Palace, the French president his plan to introduce legislation that would curb the spread of misinformation during the country’s future election campaigns—a lofty goal he said would be made possible by enforcing more media transparency and blocking offending sites. “Thousands of propaganda accounts on social networks are spreading all over the world,
