You can’t regulate the freedom of expression, whose limits are already in the law and jurisprudence, but attention should be given to those who spread fake news, and people should be warned for it and for their scrupulous actions.
With all the gadgets and software to edit photos and moving pictures social media got an extra asset to manipulate happenings and news spreading, to bring more easily (sometimes convincing) fake news.
Since a few years several populist politicians are trying to twist the truth and certain important European leaders, who formed the ‘Normandy Four’ even did not dare to speak openly about the going on disinformation and the effort to create more Russophobia.
Today is not D-Day pointing to a liberation, but X-Day pointing to a Doom Day. For years there have been many unsolved disagreements about financial services, agriculture, fishing, and a great part of Britains has chosen for a Brexit getting some of those difficult issues done, but they mistakenly, by all the false sayings of […]
Certain voices of survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau were preferred not to be heard by certain state leaders, who felt as if they and their regime were attacked, or who according to them should not have received a voice because they did belong to communist and/or rebellious groups.
The negative reactions against some survivors speeches made it clear that our Western so-called civilised society has still to go a long way and has to make sure an objective education shall be given, with some good historical background and insight how manipulation and propaganda should be recognised and avoided.
