The role of the Regulation on the transparency and targeting of political advertising and European Media Freedom Act in the EU’s anti-disinformation strategy

IF 3.2 3区社会学 Q1 LAW

Computer Law & Security Review Pub Date : 2025-08-22 DOI:10.1016/j.clsr.2025.106185

Sarah Eskens

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Abstract

The EU takes many different actions against disinformation. With the adoption of the Digital Services Act (‘DSA’), the EU took legal measures against disinformation for the first time. The DSA has been supplemented by new legislation which has received considerably less attention for its anti-disinformation goals: the Regulation on the transparency and targeting of political advertising (‘TTPA Regulation’) and European Media Freedom Act (‘EMFA’). The goal of this paper is to bring the TTPA Regulation and EMFA into the debate about the EU’s actions against disinformation. This paper shows how the TTPA Regulation and EMFA are meant to help with curbing disinformation and how they complement the DSA and Code of Conduct on Disinformation. The paper also shows how the TTPA Regulation and EMFA should be understood against three developments in the line of actions that the EU took against disinformation over the past decade, leading to new research questions about the EU’s legal measures against disinformation.

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《政治广告透明度和针对性条例》和《欧洲媒体自由法》在欧盟反虚假信息战略中的作用

欧盟针对虚假信息采取了许多不同的行动。随着《数字服务法案》（DSA）的通过，欧盟首次对虚假信息采取了法律措施。DSA得到了新立法的补充，该立法因其反虚假信息的目标而受到较少关注：关于政治广告透明度和目标的条例（“TTPA条例”）和欧洲媒体自由法案（“EMFA”）。本文的目的是将tpp法规和EMFA纳入关于欧盟打击虚假信息行动的辩论中。本文展示了TTPA法规和EMFA如何帮助遏制虚假信息，以及它们如何补充DSA和虚假信息行为准则。本文还展示了如何根据欧盟在过去十年中针对虚假信息采取的行动的三个发展来理解TTPA法规和EMFA，这导致了关于欧盟针对虚假信息的法律措施的新研究问题。

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Computer Law & Security Review LAW-

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5.60

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10.30%

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审稿时长

67 days

期刊介绍： CLSR publishes refereed academic and practitioner papers on topics such as Web 2.0, IT security, Identity management, ID cards, RFID, interference with privacy, Internet law, telecoms regulation, online broadcasting, intellectual property, software law, e-commerce, outsourcing, data protection, EU policy, freedom of information, computer security and many other topics. In addition it provides a regular update on European Union developments, national news from more than 20 jurisdictions in both Europe and the Pacific Rim. It is looking for papers within the subject area that display good quality legal analysis and new lines of legal thought or policy development that go beyond mere description of the subject area, however accurate that may be.