Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu sent a message on Saturday on World Press Freedom Day, expressing his respect for media people who do their duty to the public with professionalism and good faith, Agerpres reports.
"All respect for the media people who do their duty to the public with professionalism and good faith. Quality journalism and its promotion represent essential levers for the further evolution of Romanian society in a direction that guarantees development, respect for the values ??of democracy and freedom," Marcel Ciolacu said in the message, according to a Government press release, transmitted to AGERPRES.
According to the Prime Minister, "in a world marked in recent years by multiple and increasingly complex challenges, correct and unbiased information of the public and respect for the truth mean responsibility towards citizens - on the part of journalists and press institutions and, equally, on the part of state institutions and the political environment."
"World Press Freedom Day was established over three decades ago, with the aim of raising awareness of the major role that freedom of expression plays in modern society, in defending democratic values ??and fundamental rights. In a world marked in recent years by multiple and increasingly complex challenges, accurate and impartial information of the public and respect for the truth mean responsibility towards citizens - on the part of journalists and press institutions and, equally, on the part of state institutions and the political environment. This year's theme of World Press Freedom Day highlights an extremely current aspect of the evolution in the dissemination of information, namely the management of the opportunities, but also of the potential dangers that the development of artificial intelligence implies. In the face of these challenges, the media is faced with an evolution of "the mode of communication in which the right to freedom of expression, enshrined at the constitutional level, remains essential, and the use of artificial intelligence in promoting information and opinions must ensure the necessary balance between good journalistic practices and good-faith, documented information of the public," the Prime Minister points out.
In this context, says the Head of the Executive, "combating fake news and malicious disinformation campaigns represents an objective assumed at the Government level, by coordinating inter-institutional actions aimed at implementing strategic communication and combating disinformation."
"We remain firmly committed to this direction and rely on the support of our actions on media representatives, whose role is also decisive in the coherent and responsible approach to the issues that concern people and which, under no circumstances, should be transformed into levers of disinformation and manipulation," Marcel Ciolacu said.
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