"FAKE NEWS" e as implicações legais do projeto de LEI N° 2.630/2020

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate how the technological progress scenario and the easy access to the internet have changed the current personal and political-economic relations, bringing implications for the communication area and, so, requiring a specific regulations creation to obtain more security in view of “Fake News” high rate dissemination. In its development, this work seeks to explain to the reader how "Fake News" originated in different social contexts, the most recent of which being its dissemination on social networks. In addition, it seeks to differentiate what is a personal opinion, belief, ideological or expression of truth, from a impartial news, so that the constitutional rights guaranteed to Brazilian citizens are protected. As well as, “Fake News” story in Brazil will be explained throughout this study, analyzing its emergence and implications in the national congress, Supreme Court, public figures’s lifes and in people lifes. And, finally, we highlighted “Fake News” Bill’s main arguments, in which we seek to explain positive and negative implications that its approval can bring to the daily people lifes and digital platforms. In short, the main objective of this study is to list and envision current social and political-economic conjecture influenced by “Fake News” uncontrolled dissemination, in order to demonstrate conflicting points of view, so reader can adopt a favorable or unfavorable position for political implications of the regulatory mechanisms being suggested.