Published December 09,2023
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Türkiye‘s communications director mentioned on Saturday {that a} substantial element of world strategic communication initiatives entails addressing the rising damaging actions facilitated by rising communication applied sciences.
“Today, the field of strategic communications includes combating disruptive elements such as hybrid threats, cyberattacks, and systematic disinformation campaigns,” Fahrettin Altun mentioned in his handle on the TRT World Forum in Istanbul.
Altun mentioned these dangerous actions try and straight exploit social divisions, and goal “to fuel polarizations and conflicts in the international area.”
He highlighted that damaging actions, particularly disinformation, tackle a nature that incites violence and nourishes hate crimes significantly throughout occasions of disaster.
“Today, we all discuss widely about hybrid threats, lies becoming commonplace, hegemony of fake news, truth becoming unimportant, and manipulations of democracies along with new media technologies,” Altun mentioned.
Recognizing that disinformation poses a direct risk to human life, public well being, democracies, and economies, Türkiye is actively engaged on formulating nationwide methods to counteract it, he added.
“It should be the responsibility of public broadcasters to protect these valuable efforts and to defend the truth,” he mentioned. “In the post-truth era we live in, the main actors who will fight for the truth are public broadcasters, and so they should be.”
Altun reiterated that public broadcasters can uncover misinformation and disinformation via their journalistic experience, using digital instruments and using adaptive methods.
He added that confronting these challenges and mitigating their adversarial impacts is undeniably difficult.
“However, we’ve no alternative however to embrace digitalization in such a method as to create alternatives for public broadcasters.
“As public broadcasters, we need to leverage digital tools to provide high-quality content that has staying power and qualitative longevity,” he mentioned.
Emphasizing the need of upholding the dedication to delivering correct and “speedy information” to the general public, Altun mentioned public must be educated about contextual data.
“We cannot leave the public at the mercy of so-called journalists who are not trained properly and who are only seeking the next viral content.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr