جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « defamation » در نشریات گروه « علوم سیاسی »

The legal approach countries employ to counter fake news at election times varies. In order to tackle this phenomenon, some countries have a general criminal and civil code. This is mainly due the absence of a law explicitly prohibiting fake news published on social media at election times. In some countries, election laws refer to a ban on broadcasting fake news, but other countries focus on fake news, and relay them on social media or websites. According to the Iranian General Election Policy, the destruction of candidates is illegal. Furthermore, under the label of defamation and spreading disinformation, criminal law has been used to tackle fake news in both parliamentary and presidential elections. Therefore using false headlines or statements in election campaigns or causing election disruption can be investigated. However, given the importance and impact of news on the fate of elections, it is necessary, especially in the case of online news sites or social media, which now play an increasingly greater role in elections, to broaden legal provisions in order to amend electoral laws or to enact special laws to counter fake news during the entire election process.

The purpose of this article is to investigate the possibility of criminalization, legalization, compensation, and prevention of crimes against the moral validity of legal entities in the law of Iran and the United Kingdom. This article seeks to answer, through an analytical and descriptive method and with library tools, the question of whether a crime can occur against the reputation and credibility of legal entities in the laws of these two countries. Based on the findings of this study, the possibility of committing a crime against the credibility and reputation of legal entities in the rights of both countries has been recognized. Crime against reputation has been recognized as a civil offense and is guaranteed to be a civil offense.