Guideline for Setting up Law for Controlling and Protecting Givers and People Affected by Online News Givers

Abstract

          Current, the technology of using the Internet had become popular. Therefore made social media occur by social media thereby may publish or sent information from sender to receiver be fast forwarding without limitation who is sender. Therefore able simple publish fake news on social media. When there is a misrepresentation of information on social media. There must always be a sufferer of fake news.this research had the objective to study and and analyze problems of the Criminal Code regarding normal negligence, Civil and Commercial Code on tort and the Computer-related Crime Act B.E. 2560 by studying the problems of online news givers who provide fake news to news receivers and caused damage to news receivers and people receiving fake news to get confusion on the fact. The following were the results:
          The law enforcing with online news givers who give fake news must be applied with the Criminal Code and the Civil and Commercial Code and the enforced law is not suitable for the crime and even though there is Computer-related Crime Act B.E. 2560 which specifies inputting fake information is punishable but it does not cover presentation of fake news by normal negligence so this is a legal point that must be rectified. The study is from general articles, concepts, theories and the legal principle of Thailand and related foreign law in order to analyze the finding and used it as a guideline in as a guideline in improving the law making it suitable and efficient.