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… concerns? Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 35(4), 206. 16 Although information age and information society are concepts difficult to define, they have been characterised as a global economy ‘characterized by the almost instantaneous flow and exchange of information, capital, and cultural communication’, which order and condition both consumption and production, reflecting and creating distinctive cultures. For a detailed and systematic look into the topic, see the extensive sociological … whose mission is to stop the dissemination of ‘fake news’, and the introduction of the Audiovisual Council’s (the Council) prerogative to reject, suspend and remove the emission agreement of a media service on the grounds of it being controlled by a foreign State and spreading ‘fake news’. They are as well the most problematic provisions regarding freedom of speech. The issue of the former, contained in Article 1 and modifying the Electoral Code, lies firstly on the definition of ‘fake news’ … analyse the amount of information needed to understand a ‘fake news’, and therefore insufficient as well to decide on it. As to the latter, the Audiovisual Council has the jurisdiction to deny the emission of a media service if it is controlled by a foreign State and tries to influence the political debate through the diffusion of ‘fake news’; these provisions (Arts. 4 to 6 of the proposal, modifying the Law on the Freedom of Communication) consist, in short, in the subordination of the emission …