Fake News Statement from the Presidential Communications Director

Many statements were made that the posts shared on social media would be subject to control and sanction. Especially President Erdogan, social media law It gave many signals about the future and what it will change. The latest development in this regard was a statement about fake news.

Participating as the guest of honor in the TRT Future Communicators Competition Award Ceremony, held for the seventh time in Istanbul Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun, ‘fake news’ and all kinds of content containing false information stated that it should be cautious. “We can only fight against organized lies in an organized and coordinated manner” Altun said that it is everyone’s duty to be on the side of the truth and raise awareness.

“We will strengthen the truth”

Talking about the diversification and strengthening of communication channels and tools in the program he attended, Fahrettin Altun said that the new communication policy cause good and prevent evil He mentioned that it was determined as a purpose. “The most dangerous of these traps is to present the situation called ‘beyond the truth’, namely the trivialization of truth, as the new normal.” Stating that one should be vigilant against false information with his statements, Altun continued his statements with the following words:

It is our common duty to protect the communication channels created by the joint efforts of societies from lies, slander, defamation and conspiracy theories. This type of action activating fault lines between different layers of societyIn recent years, different countries have experienced the effects of destabilizing economies, creating a crisis of confidence between society and the state, and reducing trust in democratic institutions and organizations. Of course, our biggest weapon against this wave, which has grown recently, especially with the help of social media, is the truth. The castle of truth is our biggest insurance against media operations and perception games. Together, we will protect the truth from the sense of pessimism and insecurity and organized evil that the instruments of the beyond-truth try to pour on our societies.

Explaining that the necessary reaction has been put in a willful way against fake news and efforts are being made to strengthen the truth, the Director of Communications added the following statements to his statements: Building ways and methods of combating social media-centered cyber disinformation will be one of the most vital issues for communicators in the future as it is today. Some kind of fake news and fake content ‘digital weapon of mass destruction’ It would not be wrong to say that it is. We can only fight against organized lies in an organized and coordinated way.