Bishkek, April 25, 2022 / Kabar /. The society needs more educated generation, Director of Kyrgyzstan's Kabar News Agency Kubanychbek Taabaldiev told speaking at the 2022 World Journalists Conference on Monday about emergence and elimination of the fake information space.
He said that there is rapid increase of the influence of the media flow on big politics. "Until now, the common perception was that political players use media to their own advantage, specifically aiming the flow of information in the direction they need. This system was stable in giving certain results in favor of any given policies. However, over time as people stepped into the so-called “Internet era” it became obvious that information flows had the ability to rise above politics," Taabaldiev noted.
The head of the Kyrgyz news agency also touched upon the growth of the Internet’s influence on all aspects of life within the global community.
In particular, he focused on Facebook, which became one of the most important social and informational platforms.
Taabaldiev highlighted there are cases when Facebook groups have been used very effectively in election processes in certain countries at different levels. In particular, the example of Kyrgyzstan during the political events of 2020, when there was a change of power largely organized by Facebook pages, proves this well," he said.
The journalist added that similar platforms with various additional features began to appear and work in parallel with Facebook.
"The new possibilities of IT-technologies will surely continue to create more new forms and solutions to distribute information to a very wide range of people. In these circumstances, it becomes almost impossible to track the authenticity of information, which has lead to a lot of fake news," he noted adding that these stories can be divided into two types.
Taabaldiev said that the first type consists of unintentional fake stories, when their authors spread them without realizing their unreliability and the second type consists of purposefully created and deliberately distributed fake information.
"Social networks are largely unregulated, except for their owners’ ability to manage platform participants to some extent," the director of Kabar Agency said emphasizing that the world community needs to encourage and educate people, especially the younger generation, about the traditional values of media.
"It could be very difficult, but it must be done. Otherwise, we will find ourselves in a world with a completely unreliable, fake information space. An educated society needs to be able to figure out where the truth is and where is the lie," he concluded.
The 2022 World Journalists Conference has started on Monday in the Republic of Korea both online and offline with the participation of about 70 journalists from more than 50 countries.
The first day has started under the theme of "Current Status of Fact-Checking by Global Journalism and the Operation of Media Self-regulatory Organization", where the journalists discuss and share different experiences and points of view on fact-checking.
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