Germany Goes on the Attack, Criticising ‘Dark Side of the Internet’ and ‘Fake News’ in Run Up to Election

Germany’s justice minister has joined efforts to prepare the ground for significant control of news distribution online, following moves by Chancellor Angela Merkel, calling out social media for “fake news”.

The socialist politician, sitting as justice minister thanks to a grand coalition that sees the centre-right Christian Democrats sharing power with the left, Heiko Maas made the comments ahead of next year’s Bundestag elections. Mr. Maas said Germany “must reckon” with the proliferation of what he called fake news, and that if unchecked it would influence the election...

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Newspeak is the fictional language in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. It is a controlled language created by the totalitarian state Oceania as a tool to limit freedom of thought, and concepts that pose a threat to the regime such as freedom, self-expression, individuality, and peace.

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