Disinformation

Heads of State and Government of the European Union will meet at the last summit in Brussels for the last time this year.  They will discuss Brexit, the Multiannual Financial Framework, Migration and Counteraction to Disinformation. Prime Minister Boyko Borissov will also take part in the meeting.

Tirana, Dec 3 /Agerpres/ - The mission of news agencies is to provide real, impartial and uncontested news.

Freedom of the press is in danger in Moldova, Western diplomats, Moldovan journalists and experts said on Thursday at the Media Forum 2018, held in the capital, Chisinau.

Media freedom is already restricted, but the country's legislators are not interested in providing a better framework for an independent media to develop, speakers said.

Bulgarian EU Presidency, too, fell victim to fake news, Minister for the Bulgarian Presidency of the EU Council Lilyana Pavlova said at an international conference entitled "Fake News of True Trolls", Focus News Agency reports.

Sofia hosts an international conference on "Fake News of True Trolls" on 9th of November. The conference will present the European Commission's policy on combating online disinformation and the results of the anti-fake news measures taken so far. Among them is the recently developed Code of Good Practices for Combatting Disinformation on the Internet, reports BNT. 

''Fake news spreads faster and deeper'', said software expert Dr. Preslav Nakov.

''Disinformation, together with demographic knowledge is very dangerous because it can influence people's choices. Especially in social networks there must be a balance between fake news and freedom of speech'', he said.

According to Forbes, this is the world's best technology conference with more than 70,000 participants, the Serbian government said.

At this gathering, where directors and founders of technology companies, start-ups, representatives of governments, international institutions and media participate, Brnabic is representing Serbia in two panels.

Sofia. People are not familiar with the term "fake news" and there is not enough talk about it, Political analyst Parvan Simeonov, CEO of Gallup International, (not related to Gallup, Inc.), told Focus News Agency.

34 per cent of Bulgarians say they have seen fake news or news the content of which they believe is untrue in the last week of July. This is equivalent to 1 million and 800 thousand adult Bulgarians. This conclusion is made in an express drill of Gallup International, held between 30 July and 1 August.

"The Radio and Television Act is a fairly "narrow garment", the regulation has to change with its sector, there is overregulation in the radio and television, and the online space is completely out of regulation, and actually the dangerous phenomena go right from there", announced on bTV Chairman of the Council for Electronic Media Sofia Vladimirova.