Antidote to fakes

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On average, Russians spend more than four hours a day on their smartphones (and schoolchildren - more than six). At the same time, most of them believe that they understand a huge amount of information. Thus, 62% believe that they can distinguish true news from false. Such data from Mediascope and VTsIOM were cited by the head of the communications department of the organization "Russia - the Country of Opportunities" Sergey Kolyada at the session "New influencers of Russia and the fight against fakes" on June 17 as part of the SPIEF-2023.

He noted that 90% of Russians agree that an information war is currently being waged against the country. This is confirmed by the figures:

Last year, the number of content writing service published fakes increased sixfold compared to 2021 – from 1.5 million to 9 million messages

If the news evokes a strong emotion, it is a reason to think that you are dealing with lies and propaganda: as if they are trying to push a person to do something, Marat Bashirov, professor at the Higher School of Economics and author of the Politjoystick Telegram channel, expressed his point of view at the forum.



Along with emotion, a political idea is thrust upon a person as a commodity, journalist and blogger Semyon Uralov agrees with him. According to him, the problem now is not fakes, but the unpreparedness of the domestic user, who is bombarded with an avalanche of information every day. The expert pointed to the inability to critically perceive reality and the lack of a holistic picture of the world among the majority.

“For several decades, Russia has been raising a consumer who is incapable of thinking, and has also borrowed the Western media model, in which everyone lies one way or another,” Semyon Uralov emphasized in his speech at SPIEF-2023.

CONFRONTATION OF FAKENESS

The Russian Foreign Ministry has a section on its portal that reviews false publications about Russia, Maria Zakharova, director of the department of information and press, said at SPIEF-2023. She noted that reviews of fake materials are published on this resource weekly. The official representative of the Foreign Ministry, as is known, actively covers socio-political topics in her personal accounts on social networks.

Marat Bashirov believes that officials running their own online channels is the best method of combating fakes.