Propaganda

"The Radio and Television Act is a fairly "narrow garment", the regulation has to change with its sector, there is overregulation in the radio and television, and the online space is completely out of regulation, and actually the dangerous phenomena go right from there", announced on bTV Chairman of the Council for Electronic Media Sofia Vladimirova.

There is a whole lot that the current Greek government should not be bragging about, not even in the context of self-praise about its "achievements" - a deception of public opinion and brazen propaganda of the type it regularly indulges in, without any sense of moderation.

Britain's top diplomat, Boris Johnson, told Parliament on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would use the World Cup this summer as a propaganda tool much as Hitler used the 1936 Olympic Games to glorify Nazi Germany.

A terrorist group linked to the Islamic State spread a poster showing a car pointing to the Basilica of Sts. Peter "in Rome and so warned of a bombing on Christmas Eve, British newspaper quoted the Catholic Herald as saying.

A study of social network manipulation found that of 65 surveyed countries, the governments of 30 of them found themselves active in targeting information in a false direction. The Freedom of the Web 2017 survey was conducted by Friedham House, reports bgnes. 

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.

Eight EU countries have signed a letter asking for "Russian propaganda to be countered, especially in the Western Balkans."

Tanjug reported this on Tuesday, citing the Croatian daily Jutarnji List, which in turn, quoted the Brussels-based website EUobserver - which said it had seen the letter, sent to EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini.

The politician stands at the entrance and at the exit, controls and intervenes in the content of the journalistic materials. The political pressure on the media is back.

These are the findings of the Association of European Journalists - Bulgaria / AEG /, which has conducted an online research on freedom of speech, reported BGNES.

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

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.