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Vice President Iotova says social networks have become manipulative media

Iliana Iotova at the conference "Organized Civil Society against Disinformation", 12 June 2023
Photo: BTA

Behind fake news lie strategies that aim to manipulate public opinion and weaken well-functioning institutions. False rumours and misinformation have been a global threat for a long time, but today the danger is much greater because digital platforms increase fake news tenfold, said Bulgaria's Vice President Iliana Iotova stated this before the conference "Organized Civil Society Against Disinformation". 

"In the conditions of a highly competitive environment, the media rely on informational subsidies by publishing texts from foreign media without indicating the original. Often times they publish only part of that original so they change the content. This is also fake news," Iotova said.



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