The 2016 US election exposed the issue of disinformation and so-called "fake news". The following years after it proved that solving the issue may not be so easy. Attempting to delegate online news between valid and non-valid has raised free speech questions. Not wanting to give off the appearance of censorship, the E.U. has enacted its taken action by "[increasing] funding to identify and expose disinformation and [establishing] a 'rapid alert system' to do so". (Polyakova, Fried) The responsibility has partly been put on the large media companies like Facebook and Twitter.
The US is still lagging to enact similar strategies. It's unclear which body's responsibilities this issue falls under, and while some policies have been proposed, none have been passed. The longer the government takes to address the issue, the more sophisticated disinformation developers get.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/06/20/europe-is-starting-to-tackle-disinformation-the-us-is-lagging/
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