Social engineering

Bulgarian EU Presidency, too, fell victim to fake news, Minister for the Bulgarian Presidency of the EU Council Lilyana Pavlova said at an international conference entitled "Fake News of True Trolls", Focus News Agency reports.

Sofia hosts an international conference on "Fake News of True Trolls" on 9th of November. The conference will present the European Commission's policy on combating online disinformation and the results of the anti-fake news measures taken so far. Among them is the recently developed Code of Good Practices for Combatting Disinformation on the Internet, reports BNT. 

''Fake news spreads faster and deeper'', said software expert Dr. Preslav Nakov.

''Disinformation, together with demographic knowledge is very dangerous because it can influence people's choices. Especially in social networks there must be a balance between fake news and freedom of speech'', he said.

According to Forbes, this is the world's best technology conference with more than 70,000 participants, the Serbian government said.

At this gathering, where directors and founders of technology companies, start-ups, representatives of governments, international institutions and media participate, Brnabic is representing Serbia in two panels.

Conservative Serbs and Croats - normally at odds - came together in Moldova at the weekend to denounce gay rights, abortion and the decline of family values at the socially conservative World Family Congress in Chisinau.

Sofia. People are not familiar with the term "fake news" and there is not enough talk about it, Political analyst Parvan Simeonov, CEO of Gallup International, (not related to Gallup, Inc.), told Focus News Agency.

34 per cent of Bulgarians say they have seen fake news or news the content of which they believe is untrue in the last week of July. This is equivalent to 1 million and 800 thousand adult Bulgarians. This conclusion is made in an express drill of Gallup International, held between 30 July and 1 August.

Cyprus's police cybercrime unit is warning the public of a money extortion scheme, following complaints from people who recently received threatening emails.

Most Romanians are interested in discerning between fake and true news online, says Raluca Radu, PhD, manager of the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences of the University of Bucharest, coordinator of the European Media Monitor in Romania and rapporteur for Romania of the Digital News Report (DNR) 2018.

Can you imagine spending a month without Facebook? The inhabitants of a small Asian country will have to do so.

It's about Papua New Guinea, where the authorities decided to prohibit the use of the social networking for 30 days. For this period, an impact assessment will be carried out on the site and measures to identify fake accounts will be developed.