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  • 9 - Fake News under Siege

  • from Part IV - National Approaches to Disinformation
  • Edited by Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr., University of Alabama, András Koltay, National University of Public Service (Hungary), Charlotte Garden, University of Minnesota
  • Book:
    Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy
    Published online:
    09 January 2025
    Print publication:
    23 January 2025, pp 222-241
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    Chile’s regulation of fake news dates back nearly a century. The initial instance occurred in 1925 during a constitutional crisis that resulted in the drafting of a new constitution. At that time, a de facto government issued a decree making it illegal to publish and distribute fake news. The second regulatory milestone occurred during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet with the inclusion of provisions related to defamation in the 1980 constitution. Defamation involved spreading false information through mass media to unjustly tarnish someone’s reputation. Upon the restoration of democracy in Chile in 1990, these stipulations were permanently abolished from the legal system. Since 2001, the judicial pursuit of disinformation in Chile has been limited to exceptional means such as the State Security Law or, indirectly, through the right to rectification.