The European Commission has reached another milestone in the fight against fake news. On 15 January it inaugurated the first high-level group of experts on fake news in Brussels. The conclusions of this group will help develop this strategy on tackling fake news planned for spring 2018.
The Commission considers fake news as, “deliberate misinformation disseminated through online social media or broadcast or written news media”. In 2017, it carried out a reflection project on how to...