The head of the PS list for the European elections agreed this Saturday in Leiria with the initiative of the National Electoral Commission (CNE) to provide a number to report cases of “misinformation or unnecessary advertising”.
“Anything that can help us clarify the situation is necessary, essentially reliable sources from which people can find out, because sometimes it is not easy,” Marta Temido said during her visit to the Leiria fair.
The Socialist candidate emphasized that sometimes “one person says one thing, another says another, even sometimes in a political discourse that is very rushed and very “tense”, it is difficult to understand who is right, and therefore this is very important.” to investigate the facts,” he stressed.
The National Electoral Commission (CNE) has a WhatsApp number that citizens can use to report cases of “misinformation or false advertising” during the June 9 European election campaign.
Regarding the challenge posed by sociologist and communications specialist Gustavo Cardoso, who told Lusa that political parties should create some sort of “code of ethics” on disinformation to prevent their activists from spreading it during election periods, Marta Temido said she was “very important message”.
“We live in a time when it is very difficult for us to distinguish facts from what are sometimes factoids. These are artificial constructs that seek to mask reality in order to cause people to misinterpret what happened. This is a very worrying aspect,” he said.
According to Marta Temido, “in the busy life” of everyday life, “it is not always possible to understand how things are, how they happened.”
“Social communication plays a very important role there and is the appeal [código ético] for politicians, but also for the media and for people who also have to make an effort to be informed, to be more attentive and not to think that everything they read in the news is reality,” he concluded.
The professor who coordinates MediaLab, an institute for the study of communication sciences integrated into ISCTE, explains that this “code of ethics” could be “an invitation from Portuguese society to parties” to “practice pedagogy without using misinformation in their practices towards their militants and their sympathizers.”
Gustavo Cardoso’s message came in the context of a partnership with CNE during the European elections campaign, which Lusa joined, to detect and prevent possible fake news during this period.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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