Since 2020, Russia has seen a systematic increase in the amount of unreliable information. The director of the organization, Vladimir Tabak, stated this in the Fake Forum Dialogue organized by Dialogue Zones ANO. Forum participants evaluated the impact of counterfeit products on the political and economic situation in the country.
Tabak noted that more than 3.3 thousand unique fakes were detected in January-October 2023. This is 25% higher than last year. At the same time, according to him, fake products are becoming more regional. He explained this by the fact that in some regions of Russia, especially in the border regions, their own news agenda overlaps with the federal agenda.
“We are creating a fact-checking marketplace; To refute this, we created the information service “Noodles Media”, whose audience increased threefold. Our mission is to create and develop new verification platforms. Fake stories are not just a story that affects the user. “It carries social and political risks,” he said. “lenta.ru”.
In turn, Tatyana Matveeva, Head of the Presidential Directorate for the Development of Information and Communication Technologies and Communication Infrastructure, talked about the current experiences of China and the European Union in the fight against deepfakes and led the forum participants to the conclusion that deepfakes should be continued. Improve critical thinking to help combat information hygiene and fraud.
During his speech, the head of the Federal Office for National Affairs, Igor Barinov, talked about the work of the situation center created by the department, which detects potential information threats around the clock using a state monitoring system.
Vladislav Onishchenko, head of the ANO Digital Economy working group, explained the mechanism of the impact of unreliable information on the economy. According to him, counterfeiting is one of the ways of competition; can increase or decrease companies’ profits or capital. Media literacy may be a way to prevent some of the economic difficulties caused by fake news.
According to Sergei Lushch, head of the public organization “Union of Movement” from Belarus, if you do not organize and control the news agenda, then someone will control it. “We need to talk not just about verification, but also about the culture of digital information consumption,” he said.