Article
Fake News in the food sector: consumer distrust and unfair competition
European Food and Feed Law
(2018)
Abstract
Fake News refers to fabrications or falsehoods created in order to misinform. Several such types of disinformation have been identified:
● Misleading news: fakes something appear true when it is not, with the aim of slandering or incriminating someone
● slanderous news: lies about what someone has said or done;
● ad hoc fabricated news: when downright fallacies are invented in order to mislead or harm someone;
● falsely connected news: when news items make false connections between different facts which cannot be confirmed because there is no actual proven relationship between them;
● disseminating the findings of a technical or scientific investigation when said findings are provisional rather than definitive and have yet to be validated.
● news in a false context: any information taken out of context with the aim of creating new and false news; and
● manipulated news: that which blatantly misrepresents information and even retouches photos in order to create falsehoods.
Keywords
- Fake news,
- Food,
- European Union
Disciplines
Publication Date
October 30, 2018
Citation Information
Luis González Vaqué. "Fake News in the food sector: consumer distrust and unfair competition" European Food and Feed Law Iss. 5 (2018) p. 411 - 420 ISSN: 1862-2700 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/luis_gonzalez_vaque/266/
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