Old Standards, New Challenges: Keys to Addressing Internet Disinformation in Inter-American Jurisprudence

Resumen

On May 3, 2020, as part of World Press Freedom Day and just a few months into an unprecedented health emergency, the UN Secretary-General stated that disinformation had become the “second pandemic.” More recently, a resolution of the United Nations Human Rights Council described disinformation as “a threat to democracy.” In the Inter-American sphere, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter, IACHR) highlighted that the region is at a turning point, characterized in large part b