scholarly journals Russia’s law ‘On news aggregators’: Control the news feed, control the news?

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492199091
Author(s):  
Mariëlle Wijermars
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Media Control ◽  
Media Regulation ◽  
News Websites ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Feed Control ◽  
Media Pluralism ◽  
The Law

On 1 January 2017, a Russian federal law (№ 208-FZ) came into force that holds news aggregators liable for spreading fake news. Links to news items that originate from registered media outlets – a state-regulated category – are, however, exempt from liability. As a result, news aggregators, such as Yandex News, have revised their algorithms to avoid legal claims. This article argues that the law has created a mechanism of indirect media control enabling the Russian state to influence online news dissemination through existing media regulation structures. It conceptualises five ways in which this mechanism can affect media pluralism in Russia’s online news environment, given news aggregators’ function as algorithmic gatekeepers directing traffic to news websites. The article argues that the law ‘On news aggregators’ exemplifies the diversification of Russian regulation of online news from controlling content and targeting content producers towards governing the algorithmic infrastructures that shape news dissemination.

scholarly journals Fake News Detection on Social Media

2020 ◽  
pp. 1132-1137
Author(s):  
Dipti Chaudhari ◽  
Krina Rana ◽  
Radhika Tannu ◽  
Snehal Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Online News ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Fake News ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Application Architecture ◽  
News Websites ◽  
Facebook Pages

Most of the smart phone users prefer to read the news via social media over internet. The news websites are publishing the news and provide the source of authentication. The question is how to authenticate the news and the articles which are circulated among the social media like WhatsApp groups, Facebook Pages, Twitter and other micro blogs and social networking sites. It can be considered that social media has replaced the traditional media and become one of the main platforms for spreading news. News on social media trends to travel faster and easier than traditional news sources due to the internet accessibility and convenience. It is harmful for the society to believe on the rumors and pretend to be a news. The basic need of an hour is to stop the rumors especially in the developing countries like India, and focus on the correct, authenticated news articles. This paper demonstrates a model and methodology for fake news detection. With the help of Machine Learning, we tried to aggregate the news and later determine whether the news is real or fake using Support Vector Machine. Even we have presented the mechanism to identify the significant Tweet's attribute and application architecture to systematically automate the classification of the online news.

scholarly journals Operation of Legal Deposit System and the Ways of Its Improvement

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 607-615
Author(s):  
Nikolay A. Sakharov
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Information ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Electronic Library ◽  
Electronic Form ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The Law ◽  
State Library ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Timely Delivery

Legal deposit (LD) system, which remains to be the main source of formation of the national library-information stock of documents of the Russian Federation, needs further development and improvement. The purpose of this article is to identify the main problems faced by the modern system of LD in the segment of Federal legal deposit copy of printed publications and to consider various solutions. One of the main problems is incomplete delivery (or non-delivery) by manufacturers of the documents of printed publications issued by them, especially in electronic form, although this is required by the current version of the Federal law “On Legal Deposit copy of documents”. Instead of 16 copies, set by the Law, many publishers deliver to the Russian Book Chamber (RBC, ITAR-TASS branch) a smaller number of them, up to one copy. Situation with the delivery of publications produced in small runs is particularly alarming, as well as there are certain difficulties with the delivery of periodicals, including newspapers.General provisions of the Law “On Legal Deposit copy of documents” also apply to the copies of printed publications in electronic form. Their inclusion in the LD has led to significant changes for both document producers and LD recipient organizations. In 2017, only 518 of 5775 Russian publishers sent to the RBC the LD copies of printed publications in electronic form. The total number of electronic copies sent amounted to 24.5 thousand (about 21% of all publications issued in the country in traditional printed form).There are different ways to solve the arisen problems. The libraries-recipient constantly put the question on the need to strengthen the responsibility of manufacturers of documents for the incomplete or undelivered LD. Currently, the Russian State Library (RSL) has developed and published the “Declaration of the RSL on the work with Legal Deposit copy of the printed publication in electronic form”, which explains the most important principles of work with LD of the RSL as the operator of the National Electronic Library. The article considers a number of proposals on improvement of the LD system, in particular, of the RBC, the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Fundamental Library of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences. The author concludes that it is necessary to take effective measures to ensure the complete and timely delivery of documents from their manufacturers and stepwise inclusion in the LD of new documents that exist only in the electronic form.

scholarly journals Malaysia’s Anti-Fake News Act: A cog in an arsenal of anti-free speech laws and a bold promise of reforms

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1&2) ◽  
pp. 173-192
Author(s):  
Joseph M Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
Free Speech ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Attorney General ◽  
General Election ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Media Control ◽  
Election Result ◽  
Media Regulation ◽  
Regulation Reform

Malaysia’s surprising fourteenth general election result in May 2018 was widely hailed as the advent of a seismic shift for press freedom in the country. The country’s draconian media control armoury was often wantonly and oppressively applied over six decades under previous rule. Key actors from that era are  now presiding over bold reforms that have been promised by the new government. In keeping with its election promises, the new government sought to repeal the hastily and badly drafted Anti-Fake News Act 2018 (AFNA). The Attorney-General Tommy Thomas wrote scathingly before the Act was passed and before taking office as the new A-G:The draconian effect of the entire bill renders it unconstitutional…This is a disgraceful piece of legislation drafted by a desperate government determined to crush dissent and silence critics. The bill is so hastily and poorly drafted that it cannot under any circumstances be improved by amendment. Instead, it must be rejected outright. (Thomas, 2018)The repeal effort, however, failed and the Act remains technically on the books. This article examines the Act against a backdrop of global responses to the ‘fake news’ phenomenon; provides an overview of Malaysia’s draconian armoury of laws that impinge on freedom of expression; discusses the fading optimism for proper media regulation reform in Malaysia; and concludes that meaningful media regulation reform must go beyond repealing AFNA.

Human Rights Activities as a Function of the Prosecutor’s Office

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 88-93
Author(s):  
K.N. Golikov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
The State ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Law

The subject of this article is the problems of the nature, essence and purpose of prosecutorial activity. The purpose of the article is to study and justify the role of the human rights function in prosecutorial activities in the concept of a modern legal state. At the heart of prosecutorial activity is the implementation of the main function of the Prosecutor’s office – its rights and freedoms, their protection. This means that any type (branch) of Prosecutor's supervision is permeated with human rights content in relation to a citizen, society, or the state. This is confirmed by the fact that the Federal law “On the Prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation” establishes an independent type of Prosecutor's supervision-supervision over the observance of human and civil rights and freedoms. It is argued that the legislation enshrines the human rights activities of the Prosecutor's office as its most important function. It is proposed to add this to the Law “On the Prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation”.

scholarly journals Online News Websites: How Much Content Do Young Adults Want?

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Sturgill ◽  
Ryan Pierce ◽  
Yiliu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Online News ◽  
News Websites

Comparative analysis of normative legal acts on the execution of criminal penalties in the initial stage of the formation of the Russian state for the implementation of equality principle before the law

2021 ◽  
pp. 752-765
Author(s):  
Nikolai S. Kovalev
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
Labor Legislation ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Russian State ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
The Law

The object of the study is the implementation of equality principle before the law by fixing equal rights and obligations of prisoners in the normative legal acts of the Soviet state. The subject of research: provisions of normative legal acts of the Provisional Government, departmental normative acts of the People’s Commissariat of Justice of the RSFSR and People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the RSFSR. As a methodological basis for cognition, general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, de-duction are used, which allow us to investigate aspects of legal reality directly related to the implementation of the principles of penal enforcement (correctional labor) legislation, to formulate reasonable conclusions. Private scientific methods: formal-legal and comparative-legal – allow us to identify differences in the legal regulation of the legal status of prisoners in the pre-war period. As a result of the conducted research, we make a reasonable conclusion that the principle of equality before the law, although it was not enshrined in specific norms regulating the procedure for the execution and serving of imprisonment, however, was manifested in the provisions regulating the legal status of persons deprived of liberty. The notions of equality before the law of both citizens in general and prisoners in particular were not the fundamental basis of the legislation of the Soviet State. Prisoners were differentiated on the basis of social affiliation, due to: 1) the principle of class approach proclaimed by the Constitution of the RSFSR; 2) the functioning of two systems of places of deprivation of liberty for prisoners with different social status; 3) regulating the execution (serving) of sentences in the form of deprivation of liberty by various regulatory legal acts.

scholarly journals On the Issue of a Public Corporation as a Form of a Non-Profit Organization

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
Natalia G. Kanunnikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Public Corporation ◽  
State Corporation ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article offers the author’s vision of such a form of non-profit organization as a state corporation with a special legal status. As a result of the analysis, the author comes to the conclusion that it is permissible to recognize a state corporation as an independent subject of civil law relations, since state corporations combine the characteristics of both a legal entity, in particular, the autonomy of property, independent liability for obligations, etc., and the institution of the state, endowed with authority. The analysis of the federal legislation allowed the author to say that a special legal regime applies to modern Russian state-owned corporations, which provides for their exemption from certain duties and granting certain rights and powers. In this regard, the question is raised about the development of recommendations for improving legislation in the field under study by excluding Article 7.1 from the Federal Law, January, 12 № 7-FZ “On Non-Profit Organizations”, and introducing its content into the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, adding it to Article 124.1 “State Corporation”.

scholarly journals Involvement in the organized market of such forms of self employment in rural areas as personal subsidiary farms of citizens

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (13) ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Kot ◽  
Tat'yana Zyryanova ◽  
Sergey Zyryanov
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Axiomatic Analysis ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Deductive Method ◽  
The Law

Abstract. Within the framework of a set of measures for the implementation of the national project on small and medium-sized enterprises and support for individual entrepreneurial initiative in accordance with the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation on national goals and strategic development tasks, the importance of involving citizens in independent production activities is reflected. In this regard, Federal Law No. 422-FL of 27 November 2018 (hereinafter referred to as the Law) initiated a tax experiment to establish a new special tax regime “Tax on Professional Income” (hereinafter referred to as the TPI). The purpose of the study is to determine the economic impact of the new tool on the involvement in economic turnover of such a form of self-employment in rural areas as personal subsidiary farms of citizens. Tasks: 1) using the deductive method of theoretical research to analyze the effect of the experiment on the application of the new special tax regime on the territory of Russia; 2) to consider in practical situations the options for applying the TPI for self-employed citizens; 3) systematize data on the calculation of naps in the form of a model that has theoretical and practical significance for the involvement of private subsidiary farms (hereinafter referred to as PSF) in an organized market. Research methods: deduction, axiomatic, analysis, synthesis, comparison, experiment, measurement. The scientific novelty and results is that according to the Law, a new target group is allocated – self-employed citizens who indicate services in different fields of activity. In agriculture, it is also necessary to direct the activities of PSF that sell their own products to an organized market. Results. In order to help improve financial literacy with the support of self-employed entrepreneurs, a comparative analysis of deductions for the calculation of professional income tax was conducted. Algorithms for calculating naps have been developed, which are the basis for considering practical situations. A model has been compiled that systematizes the procedure for applying the TPI for self-employed citizens.

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