Former CDS/PP leader Paulo Portas said this Sunday in Obidos that parties and institutions are hostage to political manipulation on social networks and that this could destroy democracy.
“Parties, institutions become completely hostage to the political manipulation of digital networks, either to avoid it or to do it, and it ends badly,” said Paulo Portas, arguing that this “could ultimately lead to destruction of democracies”, as it was before. are still familiar.
The former minister, who this Sunday participated in a panel of authors at the Folio Obidos International Literary Festival, which takes place under the theme “Risk”, referred to the risks associated with artificial intelligence, saying that with its help “ignorance becomes power ” and that “the algorithm has absolutely diabolical logic.”
At the table he shared with Michel Elchaninov, a specialist in the history of Russian thought, to talk about “The Future,” Paulo Portas also spoke about the past, arguing that Russian President Vladimir Putin “is not a fan of Lenin” and that Putin “believes that This special intervention in Ukraine is also a correction of the mistake of Lenin, who defended a certain autonomy” for that country.
Both speakers are confident that the war between Russia and Ukraine “will be very long” and that the future in this area will bring more questions than answers.
Recognizing himself as “an absolute admirer of Russian literature and music,” Paulo Portas expressed the hope that “this mania for mutual destruction will not affect the richness of Russian culture, which is one of the most extraordinary,” despite the fact that in the country’s history “periods of free spirit are very are rare.”
Therefore, he concluded, “Russians are much more accustomed to obeying than choosing” and “tolerant of the central authoritarian government.”
It was the last of 14 author’s tables at the Folio Obidos International Literary Festival, which ends this Sunday, after 11 days of discussions around “Risco”.
In addition to the tables, the program included 108 talks and meetings, 40 presentations and book launches, 40 shows and concerts, 21 exhibitions and 18 readings and poetry sessions in the city of the Leiria district, which has a total of 603 authors and creators since its inauguration on the 12th.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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