Question

Justify the limitation of freedom of speech by the SA government around the spread of fake news on Covid19

Answer 1

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Governments across the world are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Alongside the mountain of related challenges, fake news has become a source of frustration. Some are now referring to this fake news phenomenon as a ‘disinfodemic’.

Purveyors of fake news are disseminating propaganda and disinformation. This has increased panic amongst the public and slowed the progress of the fight against the new coronavirus pandemic.

The ‘disinfodemic’ has resulted in misinformed behaviours such as drinking alcohol and applying heat to kill the virus. Some people were led to believe that the virus only affects white people, that testing kits are contaminated, and that vaccines are being tested on Africans while the truth is that a vaccine has not yet been discovered in Africa.

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Answer 2

Answer:The right to freedom of expression is well-entrenched under our law. It has been described as “a sine qua non for every person’s right to realise her or his full potential as a human being”, and lies at the heart of any democracy. As has been explained by the Constitutional Court, the right to freedom of expression is valuable for many reasons: “its instrumental function as a guarantor of democracy, its implicit recognition and protection of the moral agency of individuals in our society, and its facilitation of the search for truth by individuals and society generally”.

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