Уголовно-правовой анализ публичного распространения ложной информации о новой коронавирусной инфекции (COVID-19)

Abstract

Changes in the legislation of the Russian Federation are usually introduced in order to improve it as well as the mechanisms for protecting citizens from various threats and illegal actions. Such actions should also include relatively new norms providing for liability for violations of sanitary and epidemiological rules leading to the threat of a mass disease or poisoning of people, as well as other actions in the form of public dissemination of false information. The state counteracts the dissemination of false information on the Internet and messengers in various ways, which are mainly used by law enforcement agencies; however, there often arise legal problems that impede the activities of the competent authorities, and such problems are solved by amending or supplementing the current legislation. The public dissemination of false information about the new coronavirus infection is criminal, since it contains all four features provided for in the law, which qualify it as crime - this is guilt, public danger, wrongfulness and punishability. Their sum-total qualifies the considered socially dangerous act as crime, which in its essence serves as the main basis for bringing to criminal liability for this act.