Internet culture

Pope Francis begins fighting fake news, world agencies reported quoted by bTV.

Greece's central bank dismissed claims by hacking group Anonymous that it had accessed confidential internal files, saying on Wednesday the material was already in the public domain.

Anonymous responded by warning that it was merely testing out the bank's defenses and could step up its attack.

The Bank of Greece (BoG) has denied claims by the local branch of the international hacker-activist group Anonymous that it hacked and released confidential documents from the servers of the country's central bank.

Dimitar Dimitrov, Director of European Policies at Wikimedia and a Bulgarian political scientist, shared his fears that a new copyright law reform would hamper quality journalism in Europe.

After temporarily knocking out the government website for the auction of properties of overindebted Greeks last week, the local branch of the international hacker-activist group Anonymous threatened to target banks and the healthcare provider EOPYY.

Ingrid Brodnig, Austria's digital champion and author of the book Lies on the Internet, argued that blatantly false news were just the tip of the ice-berg of a "new ecosystem", whose dimensions were for instance revealed at the Constitutional change referendum in Italy last year, where five of the ten most successful media stories in the campaign proved "completely made up".

At first it was strange, but now the term “selfie” has become normal in our daily lives. Selfie is nothing more than a photo that a person takes of himself, whether it’s at home, eating, at a soccer stadium, on the beach, or wherever he/she is.

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic said more international co-operation is needed to prevent terrorist attacks after suspected Islamists killed at least 13 people and injured over 100 in Barcelona in two separate attacks on Thursday.

83% of the young Bulgarians get news on websites and social media networks, results of a survey by Alpha Research polling agency shows. It was conducted among a nationally representative sample of 1024 respondents and was focused on whether and to what extent the public recognize false news. 

As Serbia marks World Refugee Day, refugees stranded in the Balkans are taking selfies, Info Park, a unique refugee support project in Belgrade, said Tuesday.

But these selfies are not the celebratory ones to mark the beginning of a new life, but a reminder that these individuals still exist.