The bill targets content creators with more than 100,000 subscribers on a social network. Félix Bolaños, the Minister of Justice, announced that this text will replace the 1984 one to “adapt to the reality of the 21st century.”
He Spanish government presented this Tuesday a innovative bill so that citizens can exercise their right to rectify “fake news” of publications on the internet, especially on social media accounts influencers who have a certain number of followers.
Felix Bolañosthe Minister of Justice, explained in a conference after the Council of Ministers weekly that “there are professionals of hoax and lies who every day muddy our public debate with lies and with falsehoods. Also against them the right to rectification“.
He project visualize a change to combat the problems that are being generated by social networks and the digital platforms. This text will replace that of 1984 to “adapt to the reality of the 21st century” and “to a digital environment as it is today,” Bolaños added.
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What are the keys to the project
He project of text still needs to be approved by the Parliament and establishes that the media, content creators and influencers with more than 100,000 subscribers on a social network or more 200,000 subscribers in all their online networks, they will have to have “a easy mechanism and accessible to facilitate the right to rectification of the citizens of our country,” explained Bolaños.
The rule has only seven articles which detail the following: inclusion of digital media and online platforms, the expansion of the legitimate persons who can exercise the right, what the publications will be like, deadlines and rectification agreements and the judicial procedure in case it is not enough.
At the same time, another of the modifications that were presented was the deadline to request a rectification from a mediawhich is extended from seven to ten dayswhere it will no longer be necessary to contact the director of the publication.
Source: Ambito
