Hasanuddin Law Review
VOLUME 5 ISSUE 3, DECEMBER 2019

Fake News as a Democratic Anathema: A Comparative Study between India and Indonesia

Ishita Sharma (School of Law, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies)
Mansi Aggarwal (Student, School of Law, 4th year, B.B.A. LL.B. (Corporate Law), University of Petroleum & Energy Studies)



Article Info

Publish Date
26 Dec 2019

Abstract

The undeniably mind boggling media landscape has tossed fresh difficulties to an unsettled environment of media policy and that is why the market is denuded with fake news: scattered through social media intermediaries. Absence of effective laws for the same, have worsened the situation in recent past. Through this paper the researchers have tried to inspect how the propagation of fake news has upset the public sphere and potential arrangements that can be executed to check the plague of fake news in context of India and Indonesia, the prime democracies. There is boisterous discussion on fake news being utilized to create a rosy impression of the politicians in the minds of citizens. Therefore, the researcher shall also cover this aspect by analyzing how fake news has affected elections and how it was used as a tool of mass deception respectively. Finally, it attempts to analyze various strategic initiatives taken by both the nations, and the potential measures which could be adopted to limit the progression of fake news.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

halrev

Publisher

Subject

Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice

Description

Hasanuddin Law Review (Hasanuddin Law Rev. - HALREV) is a peer-reviewed journal published by Faculty of Law, Hasanuddin University. HALREV published three times a year in April, August, and December. This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research ...