WHICH LAWS GOVERNING PUBLISHING FALSE INFORMATION AND FAKE NEWS IN CASE OF VIETNAM NEWSPAPERS

Over past years, we could consider publishing false information or fake news online as internet crime, or a kind of. In recent years, many newspapers, magazines and journals take advantage of their scope of publishing to publish many fake news or untruth news online, which caused many troubles and misleading for public and society. According to a common definition, fake news items are lies - that is, deliberately false factual statements, distributed via news channels (M. Verstraete et al, 2017). By using mainly experiences, observations, practical situation with cases studies of publishing fake news, for example in Vietnam combined with qualitative analysis, synthesis and explanatory methods: we will address a case study of Thanh Nien newspaper, thanhnien.vn) and to give out recommendations for standards of editors and newspapers writers. We also propose some suggestions for educating students, esp. In journalism field in universities as well as we suggest handling these kinds of internet crime.