On 30 January, the Saeima's agenda is now incorporated into a draft law amending the criminal law to criminalise the deliberate release of false messages for greedy purposes.

Uldis Budriķis, a young conservative stripper, has amended the law to respond to societal outraging about the distribution of click-through websites in Latvia and a recent case of fake news on the case Latvia. Uldis Budriķis: "The increase in the popularity of Latvian information space is increasingly being experienced by so-called click-through sites. They are not registered as mass media within the meaning of the Act on press and other media, but attempt to capture the market for advertising by deliberately incorporating provocative, tendentious and distorted information into their content, thus trying to attract Public attention. Creating such information and creating and maintaining individual websites is largely a greedy intent, that is to say, the greedy intent is when the guilty actions relate to the endeavor of the benefit of any tangible material. As a result of these activities, the Latvian information space is increasingly displaying false news and distorted information about the developments in Latvia, its politics, economics or social life, with the aim of making panic and anxiety in order to gain tangible benefits, The deployment of automated advertising. " The 2018 population survey concluded that 32% of Internet users believe in the information published on social media sites, while 22% tend to share information over the Internet without having to verify it beforehand on other information sources that the author views Merely reinforces the need not only to react to such cases of fake news, but it is already preventively possible to prevent the scope of any of this potential public misleading attempts, given the relatively high proportion of the population uncritically assess information on the Internet. The Centre for Disease Prevention and Control informed the press and the public that the information disseminated by the website aumytests.net not true. In social media on Facebook this fake message has been republished thousands of times, giving people alarm. Uldis Budriķis: "In Latvia there are individuals who are judged to be extreme extremism, when the effect of deliberately distributed disinformation was not only anxiety in society, but also financial losses. These changes preventively limit the clicks for businessmen. This is the warning sign of fake news producers. "

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