Fake News: Law & Policy

This course explores the evolving regulatory landscape as it relates to disinformation (the deliberate distribution of falsity), misinformation (unintended distribution of falsity), and malinformation (the leak of truthful information intended to cause harm). The focus of this course will be international and comparative. This course surveys the laws and norms associated with efforts to address disinformation and fake news on the world stage, and to mitigate their negative impacts.