Uncontrolled access to information on the Internet has many advantages, but it also leads to the phenomenon of fake news. Fake news is dangerous in many spheres, including that of health. For example, we are facing an increase in the amount of vaccine hesitancy. This has been w considered by the World Health Organization in 2019 as one of the greatest threats to public health. This specific phenomenon is linked with the spread of information on the Internet around that issue. In this paper, I discuss a proposition of new crime, which has the aim of fighting medical fake news by stopping its spread. This proposition should be considered only if other non-criminal measures are inefficient. The proposal is “Whoever publicly disseminates information evidently discrepant with medical knowledge is subject to a penalty.”

在互联网上不受控制地获取信息有很多好处，但也导致了假新闻现象。假新闻在许多领域都是危险的，包括健康领域。例如，我们正面临着疫苗犹豫量的增加。这已被世界卫生组织在 2019 年视为对公共卫生的最大威胁之一。这一特定现象与互联网上围绕该问题的信息传播有关。在本文中，我讨论了一个新犯罪的命题，其目的是通过阻止其传播来打击医疗假新闻。只有在其他非刑事措施无效时才应考虑这一提议。该提案是“任何公开传播与医学知识明显不符的信息的人将受到处罚。”