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The present paper aims to study the recently enacted and titled \u201cright to protection against disinformation\u201d in Portugal and determine its deontic content. Taking into consideration that the legislator refers also to a new legal definition of disinformation the analysis of the definition will also take place, considering the roles that legal definitions can have in a legal system. The paper takes an analytical approach to the Portuguese norms and system but also strives to frame the legal interpretation of the new right within the European context of measures directed at addressing the problem of disinformation, with special consideration to the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) proposal. It is argued that the new \u201cright to protection against disinformation\u201d is in reality a right to have non-binding decisions by the Media Regulator and that these decisions, although without deontic status, may perform two relevant functions: i) (dis)information correction ii) provide reasons and justification to ulterior judicial decisions concerning the removal or blocking of disinformation.<\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"imagem-da-publicacao":"https:\/\/lisbonpubliclaw.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/epiblica_LiberdadeDesinformacaoContextodaPandemia-e1702987883723.png","areas-de-investigacao":"Direito Digiral","investigador-responsavel":[],"editor-externo":"","editor":["1733"],"autores-externos":"","referencia-biografica":"DOMINGOS SOARES FARINHO, The New \u201cRight to Protection against Disinformation\u201d in Portugal, 8 e-Publica 78 (2021).","projeto-a-que-pertence":"Lisbon Digital Rights and Freedoms","selecionar_o_projeto_a_que_pertence":[],"titulo-do-livro-revista":"e-publica","ano":"2021","isbn":"","editora":"","link-para-download":"https:\/\/e-publica.pt\/article\/34115-the-new-right-to-protection-against-disinformation-in-portugal"},"cluster":[48],"categoria-da-publicacao":[38],"grupo-de-investigacao":[11],"class_list":["post-5450","publicacoes","type-publicacoes","status-publish","hentry","cluster-lisbon-digital-rights","categoria-da-publicacao-artigo","grupo-de-investigacao-direito-administrativo"],"yoast_head":"\nThe new \u201cright to protection against disinformation\u201d in Portugal - 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