North Macedonia’s Government has prepared an action plan on combating disinformation as it has been increasingly disrupting democratic and elections processes and affecting public trust in the institutions and the media, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said today. “Disinformation is one of the main challenges facing democracy in 2019 and a tool to manipulate the citizens. […]
The money to fight fake news would be used in an educational campaign and raising awareness among the population that not everything on the Internet is true, to get an education and culture of reading news and distinguishing what is true and what is not. Igor Trajkovski, the owner of time.mk – the most famous […]
Brussels may threaten social media companies with regulation unless they move urgently to tackle fake news and Cambridge Analytica-style use of personal data before the European elections in 2019. The EU security commissioner, Julian King, said “short-term, concrete” plans needed to be in place before the elections, when voters in 27 EU member states will […]
