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COVID-19 Infodemic: Fake News, Real Censorship. Information and Freedom of Expression in Time of Coronavirus

Name: COVID-19 Infodemic: Fake News, Real Censorship. Information and Freedom of Expression in Time of Coronavirus
Creator: Marsili M

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Conference object , Other literature type 01 Nov 2020 Italy English Publisher:Université de Lorraine

Authors: Marsili M;

doi: 10.5281/zenodo.12772402 , 10.5281/zenodo.5541208 , 10.5281/zenodo.7022463 , 10.5281/zenodo.7022462 , 10.5281/zenodo.5541209

handle: 10278/5037569 , 10278/5037542 , 10278/5064586

COVID-19 Infodemic: Fake News, Real Censorship. Information and Freedom of Expression in Time of Coronavirus

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Abstract

Infection disease outbreaks are invariably characterized by myths and rumors, boosted by social media accounts, that media often pick up and circulate. On the grounds of protecting public health in the context of the covid-19 pandemic, some Member States of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe imposed strict rules on the dissemination of “fake news”. This paper reviews the outbreak communication principles established by the World Health Organization and checks the compliance of emergency legislation, adopted under the pretext of combating misinformation and disinformation, against fundamental human rights.

This work received financial support by the European Social Fund (ESF) and by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal, under grant SFRH/BD/136170/2018. The participation in the conference was funded by the Research Centre of the Institute for Political Studies of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (CIEP-UCP)

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Italy

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Ca Foscari University of Venice
Italy

Keywords

Misinformation; Disinformation; Fake news; Fundamental human rights; Democracy; censorship; freedom of speech; human rights; freedom of thought; freedom of expression; freedom of the press; freedom of information; propaganda; European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR); Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR); COVID-19, Institutional communication, PR, Human Rights, COVID19, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, COVID-19; Coronavirus; Disinformation; Misinformation; Democracy; Human Rights; International Law, Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFR), Epidemic, Fundamental Human Rights, freedom of the press, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PACE), virus, freedom of thought, Covid-19 pandemic, World Health Organization (WHO), Misinformation; Disinformation; Fake news; Fundamental human rights; Democracy; censorship; freedom of speech; human rights; freedom of thought; freedom of expression; freedom of the press; freedom of information; propaganda; European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR); Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR); COVID-19; pandemic, freedom of information, European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), infodemic, freedom of expression, Health and risk communication, freedom of the media, International Law, Sars-2, Fundamental human rights, Disinformation, Infodemics, Pandemic, Censorship, COVID-19, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Democracy, propaganda, Coronavirus, freedom of speech, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Fake news, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Misinformation, censorship

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