“Social media platforms are among the largest stages for covert political propaganda and the well-known fake news.”

Ricardo Henriques, partner at Abreu Advogados, commented on the fight against disinformation in the European Union in an article published by Jornal de Negócios, highlighting that “social media platforms are among the largest stages for covert political propaganda and the well-known fake news.”

According to the coordinator of the Intellectual Property and Information Technology practice area, “the European legislator has been prioritising, on the one hand, the promotion of media literacy” and, on the other, “improving the poorly harmonised regulations among Member States.”

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