http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20180905-091512-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/shedding-light-or-shooting-in-the-dark-how-to-define-fake-news/ Shedding Light or Shooting in the Dark – How to define Fake News? Hochmann, Thomas eng 2018-09-05 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Fake News legislation Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 A proposed legislation against the “manipulation of information” is currently under consideration by the French parliament in order to tackle the problem of fake news. A sufficiently precise definition of fake news is a necessary preliminary condition to have a political or legal debate on the issue. The attempts of the French parliament have some significant shortcomings in this regard, but they can serve as a basis to elaborate a better definition.