Ten Years of Legislative Response to the Spreading of Disinformation via Social Media in the EU region: A Road to Convergence

Disinformation through social media is widely considered as a threat to democracy and rule of law. Convergence of national legislation could add weight to the leverage of EU- states both as a group and individually towards platforms that disseminate disinformation. Convergence of national regulation may emerge from in depth consideration of security, past experience with authoritarianism, external and internal threats to democracy and a sense of common interest. When authoritarian parties get involved in government, further regulation of anti-democratic disinformation will likely be obstructed, and the spreading of such disinformation likely will increase.