“We are living in the 21st. century where information goes fast, and information is power, but people are manipulating information. That is why we need more state regulation.” said Vladimir Gjotgjevski from “Regional Youth Cooperation Office – RYCO“, at Conference: Attacks on democracy and human rights: Civil society organizations in support of Western Balkans societies facing disinformation, hate speech and hybrid attacks, organized by CIVIL in cooperation with Balkan Forum and members of the Civil Society Platform for Democracy and Human Rights (CSP).
He mentioned that nowadays, people have to be more critical, who owns the media, do they earn from the media? Why are they saying what they are saying?
“Media unfortunately divides people instead of uniting them. We have to teach young people to think analytically and critically and figure out what the media is trying to say. We have students writing about life in the dormitories, or how COVID influences online education, but generally we need more stories that unite us, instead of divide us. We really have to focus on both formal and informal education. There is one training that deals with this, but we need more. If we use media just to manipulate each other we will stay in the same place and never progress, and have even more youth migration” noted Vladimir Gjotgjevski on Wednesday (7.28.2021), Skopje.
