TY - BOOK AU - Bentzen, Naja ED - Parlamento Europeo TI - 'Fake news' and the EU's response PY - 2017/// PB - Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services KW - Unión Europea KW - Medios de comunicación social KW - Globalización KW - Seguridad de la información KW - Periodismo N2 - Fake news – deliberately fabricated stories posing as journalism with the aim of manipulating readers – became an increasingly visible global phenomenon during last year's presidential election campaign in the United States, not least due to the growing use of social media as a source for news. Whereas recent research indicates that a majority of people have difficulties determining when news is fake, the EU's steps towards countering this growing information challenge are still tentative UR - http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2017/599384/EPRS_ATA(2017)599384_EN.pdf ER -