Media manipulation

The European Union is seeking feedback on the impact of fake news as part of a move to help the bloc's 500 million citizens assess news sources and make sure that social platforms such as Facebook live up to their responsibilities.

The EU will look at proposals for curbing "the increasingly aggressive efforts of foreign factors to spread disinformation, propaganda and disbelief in the EU."

This concerns especially Serbia and the Western Balkans, EU officials have confirmed for Beta, the agency has reported.

Pope Francis begins fighting fake news, world agencies reported quoted by bTV.

Dimitar Dimitrov, Director of European Policies at Wikimedia and a Bulgarian political scientist, shared his fears that a new copyright law reform would hamper quality journalism in Europe.

A former GDR intelligence agent, Horst Kopp, wrote a book named "Disinformant" (Der Desinformant) revealing how fake news was produced during the postwar period in Germany.

In an interview with Sputnik Germany, Kopp reveals the origin of propaganda and how it is used to achieve certain goals.

The German domestic security watchdog warned Tuesday that the country's political system was likely to face cyberattacks from Russia in the run-up to September's general election.    

The mainstream media’s dubious sources appear to have betrayed them yet again with false information about the Golden State Warriors boycotting the customary post-championship-winning White House visit.

An article published on Sunday by Agence France-Presse, AFP, claiming that fake news is flourishing in Romania and fuelling euroscepticism, has put the spotlight back on this phenomenon.

We may be thinking and talking about the huge impact that the internet and social media have among society, but television is still the most powerful outlet in terms of propaganda. It is also still the most effective tool to make a huge nation sleepwalk while many life-changing events take place and the future is at stake. 

Wikileaks has just released thousands more documents claiming that the CIA has developed special methods to turn almost every gadget that we use in our daily lives, from TV sets to mobile phones, into a two-way monitoring device to spy on individuals.