Struggle to the fake news: from the state of the art to a regulatory perspective for “digital living” on the sidelines of the Digital Services Act

Abstract

The article aims to offer a starting point for reflection on the current regulatory framework of the struggle to the fake news phenomenon and the dangers it entails, with the dual purpose of identifying the aspects of strength and fragility that the current regulatory framework offers and to identify the best way to better protect the subjects involved. Credit is given to the EU legislator for having prepared the dual proposal for regulation of the DSA and DMA and for having had the courage to affirm its sovereignty in the field of digital relationships, with the hope that the approval process will lead also to the enhancement of a multi-stakeholder governance approach for self-regulation and to establish a specific guarantor authority to combat the phenomenon of private censorship too.