{"id":28740,"date":"2019-09-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspeninstitutece.softmedia.cz\/news-article\/digital-disinformation-overload\/"},"modified":"2019-09-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T22:00:00","slug":"digital-disinformation-overload","status":"publish","type":"news-article","link":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/news-article\/digital-disinformation-overload\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital (Dis)Information Overload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A public debate <strong>\u201eDigital (Dis)information Overload\u201c<\/strong> was held on\u00a0September 24 in <a href=\"https:\/\/cevroinstitut.cz\/\" rel=\"noopener\">CEVRO Institute<\/a> in Prague. The debate was prepared within the framework of the <strong>Aspen Initiative For Europe<\/strong> (AIFE) cooperation with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.de\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Aspen Institute Germany<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/aspeninstitute.es\/home-eng\/?lang=eng\" rel=\"noopener\">Aspen Institute Espa\u00f1a<\/a>,\u00a0and with kind support of CEVRO Institute, the US and Spanish Embassies.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0debate\u00a0was opened by <strong>Ivan Hod\u00e1\u010d<\/strong>, President of Aspen Institute Central Europe, and <strong>Martina Heranov\u00e1<\/strong>, Head of Prague Centre for Transatlantic Relations of CEVRO Institute.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Beginning a fascinating public debate on Digital disInformation Overload with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alandete?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">@alandete<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/meganmetzger?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">@meganmetzger<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterkreko?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">@peterkreko<\/a> Jaime Fly, organized by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AspenInstCE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">@AspenInstCE<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AspenSpain?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">@AspenSpain<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AspenGermany?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">@AspenGermany<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CEVROinstitut?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">@CEVROinstitut<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ycp6aYbpI1\">pic.twitter.com\/Ycp6aYbpI1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nika Prislan (@nprisl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nprisl\/status\/1176543056503463941?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">September 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>David Alandete,\u00a0<\/strong>ABC Daily Correspondent to the White House and the author of the book Fake News: The New Weapon of Mass Destruction, emphasized\u00a0that there is a broader assault against the liberal media. He reminded that the\u00a0media have been necessary in establishing and fostering democracy and pointed out that there is a worldwide attempt to discredit independent media in order to create an alternative reality and alternative truth distributed on disinformation platforms. He stressed that the authorities\u00a0should clearly pinpoint and indicate who a journalist is and what is media. The authors from disinformation platforms should not have the same treatment and access as journalists and media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie Fly,\u00a0<\/strong>President and CEO of RFE\/RL,\u00a0is convinced that governments should give a fundamental support to free, independent media and fact-based reporting. The broader problem is the lack of awareness about who founded the platform or who the author\u00a0is or what is the source.\u00a0He believes AI\u00a0can provide some interesting tools that would help us in fighting against disinformation and non-transparent platforms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P\u00e9ter Krek\u00f3,\u00a0<\/strong>Director of Political Capital Institute,\u00a0claimed that a lot of politicians come to the conclusion that it is easier to win elections using fake news which\u00a0work with emotions\u00a0(fear, hatred, hope) rather than\u00a0logical thinking.\u00a0In his opinion the restrictive regulation of social media is not the best way. It is rather necessary to\u00a0foster traditional forms of\u00a0critical\u00a0thinking within the education &#8211; fact checking\u00a0should become a moral obligation. Technology doesn\u00b4t have an inherent morality &#8211; it is a human issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Megan Metzger,\u00a0<\/strong>Research Scholar and Asocciate Director at the Global Digital Policy Incubator Programme\u00a0at Standord University, is convinced that many problems we are dealing with now are new in form but not in content. The technological development brings both &#8211; positive impact (e.g. access to information) and negative effects (e.g. misinformation, manipulation).\u00a0She doesn&#8217;t\u00a0support an over-restrictive way of solution that would\u00a0require to give up on freedom and rights. We need to think carefully\u00a0about these complex issues making studies and testing potential consequences\u00a0of offered solutions\u00a0before\u00a0moving forward, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The debate was moderated by <strong>Michala Hergetov\u00e1<\/strong> from Czech Television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A public debate on the role of new technologies in disinformation, manipulation, propaganda and deep fake was held on September 24, in CEVRO Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19195,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-tag":[585],"class_list":["post-28740","news-article","type-news-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-tag-inovace-a-digitalizace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article\/28740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news-article"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-tag?post=28740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}