YLE: Supo would criminalise spreading fake news on behalf of foreign state

THE FINNISH Security Intelligence Service (Supo) is proposing that the deliberate dissemination of disinformation on behalf of a foreign state be criminalised in Finland, YLE reported on Saturday.

Antti Pelttari, the director general of Supo, stated to the Parliament’s Transport and Communication Committee in April that Supo believes it is necessary to evaluate and assess whether the most flagrant forms of such influence activities should be criminalised.