Bishkek, April 25, 2022 / Kabar /. About 70 journalists from about 50 countries discuss and share different experiences and points of view on fact-checking.
The first day of the two-day 2022 World Journalists Conference, hosted by the Journalists Association of Korea, is held under the theme of "Current Status of Fact-Checking by Global Journalism and the Operation of Media Self-regulatory Organization".
President Kim Dong Hoon of the Journalists Association of Korea, in his opening remark said that he anticipates the space given to listen to the efforts made to eradicate “fake news” in each country so that we may jointly introduce and supplement them to realize respectable journalism.
"We all share commonalities even if our country, gender, skin color, and ideologies are different. It is a fact that all journalists are working hard for freedom and peace and disseminate the truth with a warm heart and cold reasoning," he stressed.
Boo-kyum Kim Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea, in his congratulatory remark expressed hope all the journalists at this conference will make a way to create a ‘healthy community’. "We need your knowledge to be collected with the spirit of solidarity and cooperation. With that power, let's make a new history for journalism and humankind," the prime minister noted.
Media Advisor Habib Toumi from Bahrain News Agency highlighted that fact-checkers has to find appropriate ways to promote fact-checking ethics among journalists and to educate young reporters on the importance of verifying content before publishing.
"In the fight against misinformation, fact-checkers also need to make sure the community is actively involved with its expert actors – academics, specialists, doctors, scientists, researchers … - in order to boost their credibility and ultimately their effectiveness in asserting discourses and content made upon data and not upon perception," he added.
Kanat Auyesbay Deputy Director of LLP Media Holding of Kazakhstan recommended to deal more systematically with fake information and pay special attention to media literacy training, the development of critical thinking for different categories of the population, from childhood to older people.
Director of Kabar News Agency of Kyrgyzstan Kubanychbek Taabaldiev also stressed the need 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 said.
All the participating journalists emphasized the importance of the topic and the fight against fakes and fact-checking come to the fore, they expressed opinion that journalists have the responsibility to check the fact of every word they publish.
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