January 15, 2018
In a New Year's speech to journalists, French President Emmanuel Macron said he's ordering a new "legal arsenal" that would oblige news sites to reveal who owns them and where their money comes from. It could cap the money allowed for content seen as aimed at swaying an election and allow emergency legal action to block websites. Photo courtesy Flickr/Ecole Polytechnique Université Paris-Saclay
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