Portals and social media: How much are information regulations affecting the lives of citizens?

27.05.2022

On Tuesday, March 15, the Tuesday Salon was held with the topic: Portals and social media: How much are the information regulations affecting the lives of citizens ?.

Part of the panel in this salon were: Visar Prebreza, Managing Editor in Life in Kosovo (JnK) and Naile Dema Selmani, Member of the Board of the Association of Journalists of Kosovo (AGK) and Drenusha Canolli. Project Coordinator at the D4D Institute, who moderated this panel and presented the report.

In this salon Drenusha Canolli from D4D presented the report entitled: Portals and social media: How much are the information regulations affecting the lives of citizens ?. This report aimed to identify news items that aimed to misinform citizens and incite hatred for different individuals or groups, and to familiarize the public with the terms misinformation and news verification. This report monitors portals and social media in both Albanian and Serbian languages ​​and includes two monitoring periods, the period during the election campaign and the period after the election campaign.

While, Visar Prebreza from JnK has stated that fake news is very disturbing and over the years there is a lot of fake news and it is dangerous, and a fake news is not just news just for clicks. Of the news that has been news without address, there are news that post news with question marks for not identifying Facebook, which are fake news. And a false news is produced regardless of the interest of the citizen, so they look at the interest of the citizen. False news is not made by chance but it is done because a news can have readability therefore it is also produced.

Whereas, Naile Dema Selmani from AGK said that this news is made with a very bad intention and very ungrateful for the fact that they generate a lot of income, create interactivity, comment, like, share and raised clicks in a certain form and these are transformed at first and this may be one of the purposes why this is done, this finding can be said to be based on the observations we make but the idea is that they are not made randomly.

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