Highlights - Study: Societal costs of “fake news” in the Digital Single Market - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

This study explores the mechanisms of “fake news” and their societal costs in the Digital Single Market. It describes the risks to the integrity of information and to the integrity of elections. It highlights the roles of the various actors involved in the production and amplification of such information disorders. Finally, it outlines responses that are being tested in different parts of Europe to deal with the issue.

The study has been provided by Policy Department A at the request of the IMCO committee.