Control de la desinformación en Europa a la luz de la Ley de Servicios Digitales de la UE (DSA)

Abstract

Disinformation is one of the challenges facing our democracies nowadays. Among other things, disinformation campaigns aim to construct a self-serving and untruthful public narrative. These campaigns are spreading especially through large digital platforms and their collaboration is necessary to fight against the phenomenon of disinformation. This paper analyses how the new Digital Services Act (DSA) creates a new paradigm for regulating the actions of these platforms and the content stored or transmitted on them. It analyses the role that the European law gives to the different digital platforms with regard to the moderation of contents that generate disinformation. It also highlights the risks involved in trying to remove certain ideas from public debate because they are understood to be false