ABSTRACT
Any study of fake news should start from a theory of falsehood-a theory about false information or false facts -that allows the reader to analyze the phenomenon in its wider context. From a human rights perspective, only some forms of fake news should be the subject of special legislation. In adopting legislative measures against fake news beyond the ones required by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, "the people may be sleepwalking into censorship". For a historian of the censorship of history, the current debate on fake news elicits several comments. While all types of falsehoods distinguished in the author embryonic theory can be encountered in historical writing, fake news-as one form of falsehood-in the history domain is of two types. The discussion on fake news invites the reader to have a closer look at the charges and accusations that have been leveled against historians in the past.
