Internet culture

Twitter launched on Wednesday an emoji for the European Parliament elections in May, seeking to provide a visual link to channel conversations around a vote set to affect the European Union in the coming years.
Together with Facebook and Google, Twitter has come under pressure to do more to combat disinformation about the elections.

In a bid to raise awareness and encourage caution against fake news, the European Commission's office in Athens said it intentionally leaked a report on Monday that the European Union imposed a fine on Greece for introducing daylight saving time on Sunday.

Media reports about the European Union imposing a fine on Greece for introducing Daylight Saving Time on Sunday was leaked intentionally to raise awareness and encourage caution opposite fake news, the European Commission's office in Athens said in a statement.

Emergency telephone number 112 can now be used via a mobile application, a computer and a tablet, the MoI announced.

The new features of the system are introduced to give people with hearing and speech impairment access. However, they need to pre-register, which requires a lot of personal data and details about the person who has decided to use the new opportunities.

''Europe is taking small steps to fight fake news, but the road is very long.'' How to recognize fake news commented Maria Gabriel, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Digital Society, in the morning block of the Bulgarian National Television.

Maria Gabriel said that every month the results of the fight of social networks with fake news are reported.

The reporting of news has changed drastically in the internet age. It is not just fake news - the deliberate misinformation of people - that is flourishing and shaking the very foundations of Western democracies; it is also, unfortunately, the recycling and reproduction of inaccurate reports, which is mainly due to journalists' laziness and the lack of any obligation to verify the facts.

In the Bulgarian schools, the questionnaire on the SELFIE tool was suspended. That was announced by Minister Krasimir Valchev. It was prepared by the EC, and it was distributed to about 900 schools in Bulgaria to assess their opportunities for introducing digital technologies for teaching and learning.

The Russian embassy in Greece on Wednesday rejected allegations of meddling in Greece's domestic affairs, raised by the US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt during an event on disinformation campaigns, describing it as "fake news."

In a letter to the European Commission's Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, the Ministry of Education and Science has requested a revision in the questionnaire to the SELFIE digital self-assessment tool.

Sometimes one has to be bold and wade into a sensitive topic. Whether the political system should own and operate state enterprises is as hot as they come, in some countries. If people feel very strongly about a topic, then you have to respect that.