ABSTRACT

Since 2015, there has been a huge increase in laws that ostensibly seek to counter misinformation. Since the pandemic began, this trend has only accelerated. Both authoritarian and democratic governments have introduced more new policies to fight misinformation in 2019 and in 2020. In authoritarian states pandemic-related misinformation provided a new justification for repressive policies. Questions of political motivations aside, as the continuing problem of pandemic misinformation illustrates, it’s unclear how effective these laws are.

中文翻译：

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各国在书籍上有100多项法律来打击错误信息。他们的工作状况如何？

摘要

自2015年以来，表面上寻求对付错误信息的法律有了巨大的增长。自大流行开始以来，这种趋势只是加速了。威权政府和民主政府都已在2019年和2020年推出了更多的新政策来打击错误信息。在威权国家中，与大流行相关的错误信息为压制政策提供了新的理由。除了政治动机问题之外，正如大流行的错误信息持续存在的问题所表明的那样，尚不清楚这些法律的效力如何。