There is a big influx of disinformation that creates a wrong image among the public and the citizens, but there is also a dangerous trend where they manage to make their way into the media through some narratives that point to the existence of disinformation, and as sources of this information are holders of power, officials, public figures, someone whom the public trusts, says in the interview for CIVIL Media Marina Tuneva, former Director of the Media Ethics Council and Professor at the Institute of Communication Studies
„On the social networks, on the other hand, we have another problem, where some citizens trust only one source of information and they don’t even try or want to explore whether there is another source of information, and someone has helped them create their belief in this way“, she adds.
According to Tuneva, we have a need for networking for cooperation of several institutions that would prevent the spread of disinformation, in the social media, in the media and in general, and in that way educate the citizens for they themselves to react when they come across information that is inaccurate.
„It is a dangerous ground when the control of disinformation is left to the government and the state institutions, as this can cause censorship and self-censorship of certain information by which the meaning of a critical product would be lost, more specifically, have some information unnecessarily detected as false information or disinformation, and thus prevent freedom of speech“, says Tuneva.
Sonja Tanevska
Camera and editing/ Arian Mehmeti
Translation: N. Cvetkovska
The interview is part of the project “Resilient journalism in countering disinformation and propaganda”, which CIVIL is implementing in partnership with Youth4Media (Y4M), with the support of the Government of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf, Germany.
