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A Consideration of Legal Regulation of Fake NewsA Consideration of Legal Regulation of Fake News

  • Legal Theory & Practice Review
  • Abbr : LTPR
  • 2020, 8(1), pp.95-137
  • Publisher : The Korea Society for Legal Theory and Practice Inc.
  • Research Area : Social Science > Law
  • Received : February 6, 2020
  • Accepted : February 25, 2020
  • Published : February 28, 2020

Lee Sang hoon 1

1호서대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

There is a lot of social concern about fake news, and there are many debates about it. Damage due to fake news is real, and false information delivered in the form of news is not easy to recover over time. While disbelief in the media (which is not really in the news) has spread the so-called “Jirashi” distribution of information magazines, the “Jirashi” was only an interesting rumor, but could not itself be argued. Fake news - false manipulation information using the form of news - is also used as a basis for criticizing or rebutting opponents and their ideas using the credibility of the media. Such fake news is produced and distributed indiscriminately and specifically for the purpose of unjustly affecting elections in the political arena. In this paper, based on the legislation on the ongoing fake news, I examined the necessity and direction of the legal definition and regulation of fake news and discussed how our society can handle fake news. After the problem of fake news emerges, fact check activities are conducted by private companies or individuals in the form of pursuing or countering the responsibilities of SNS companies, such as Facebook, which are the sources of its spread has been made. But the effect was not so obvious. Rather, the spread of smartphones tend to increase fake news. In order to fundamentally solve this problem, media literacy is indispensable. Since the issue is closely related to the living environment of the people, the government and the traditional media should take responsibility and faithfully carry out various educational activities such as public broadcasting and classes in elementary schools. From the political point of view, whether or not to eliminate the fake news that is adversely affecting not only the health problem but also the entertainment area can greatly change the social environment in the future. In order to build a democratic and peaceful society, I believe that media literacy education, which is easy to discern authenticity, should be faced with fake news as soon as possible.

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