nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20221028-225608-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 221028s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20221028-225608-0 doi eng 342 23 van de Kerkhof, Jacob Author aut Fakeness in Political Popularity van de Kerkhof, Jacob Verfassungsblog 2022-10-28 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Politics in a democratic society have long been a glorified popularity contest, which we can all hope the most capable person wins. Hence, politicians have an incentive to artificially boost their online popularity through fakeness – fake comments, fake followers, fake likes. On a fundamental level, a false sense of popularity may affect our election outcomes – so what are the legal limits of fakeness? CC BY-SA 4.0 democracy Digital Services Act DSA fakeness Social Media Goanta, Catalina Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/fakeness/ raw object