مجلة القانون العام الجزائري والمقارن
Volume 12, Numéro 1, Pages 53-67
2026-07-27
E-rumours And April Fools’ Day: Misleading News And Normatively Tolerated Deception In Digital Space
Authors : Boussahia Sayeh . Aoun Ismahane .
Abstract
April Fools’ Day has, in Western societies and certain other cultures, developed into a media custom practised by newspapers, channels, and platforms. The migration of this falsehood into the digital sphere, through social networks, electronic news websites, and even corporate accounts by publishing satirical or fabricated “news” on that day, has made such electronic hoaxes a source of public confusion, especially within an informational environment in which playfulness is intermingled with seriousness and accurate subject matter with misleading data. Recent reports have pointed to the difficulty of distinguishing truth from falsehood online on such occasions, where stylistic similarities arise between such hoaxes and electronic rumours, thereby necessitating the establishment of legal and ethical constraints for both.
Keywords
e-rumor ; April Fools’ hoax ; constraints ; criminalization ; code of ethics ; digital space
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