“Let me go back to the history of hybrid attacks, in the cold war era they were called psyops. Let me go further back in history, in the Trojan War, the Illiad is the first war reportage, who was the neutral observer? Homer. He belonged to the Achaean side, he was against the Trojans, so can we really consider him an objective reporter? Or if we go back to the Bible, the story of Adam and Eve, all of them are participants, they’re not objective observers.”, said the journalist and media expert Nenad Shebek, 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 sad that news gets slanted all the time, and it has happened forever.
“So what is new about warfare is the technology. The technology we have today has a far wider and deeper reach than ever before. In my opinion there are six things we need to do to counter these kinds of threat: media literacy and support to independent media. I am purposefully amplifying the importance of these two elements. As long as we have media literacy at the low levels we have today, it is no wonder that people will pick up on fake news, will not recognize fake civil societies, will not recognize fake media. Without media literacy people will not be able to tell the difference between genuine news and fakes news.”, noted Nenad Shebek, on Wednesday (7.28.2021), Skopje.
