AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) Maine’s Democratic Senate president believes the state needs to do more to combat the spread of misinformation on the Internet.
Senate President Troy Jackson filed a bill on Thursday that he says would do just that. Jackson’s office says the proposal would “require ‘fake news’ websites to publicly disclose who runs and funds the project in a clear manner on the website’s homepage.”
Jackson says Maine and other states have seen a surge in websites that appear to be newspapers or other traditional news outlets but are actually used by political operatives to spread misinformation and confuse readers.
