The EU is likely to remain toothless against politicians, governments or public institutions in member states that spread disinformation.
"The problem is, what if the government is entirely or partly distributing fake news," Latvian MEP Sandra Kalniete, a key lawmaker in the European Parliament's fight against disinformation, told a group of journalists.
The MEP said the key thing the EU can do "is to indicate that this is a fake news, or this oversteps the objective reality and...
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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.