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    FRANCE VS. FAKE NEWS OFFERS TEST CASE FOR DEMOCRATIC DILEMMA

    Jan 19, 2018 3 minutes

    Can a democratic country outlaw fake news?

    France is about to find out, after President Emmanuel Macron ordered a law to quash false information disseminated around electoral campaigns.

    Criticism is pouring in from media advocates, tech experts — and Kremlin-backed broadcaster RT. They say the law smacks of authoritarianism, would be impossible to enforce and is sure to backfire.

    Macron’s stance “could be just the beginning of actually censoring freedom of speech. We believe it is a very dangerous situation,” Xenia Fedorova, director of RT’s newly launched

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