Dragomir on Media Capture and Disinformation
Media captured by governments and oligarchs are a major source of disinformation, CMDS’ Director, Marius Dragomir said in an interview with Euractiv Romania.
Dragomir talked about how the European Union responds to disinformation, emphasizing that “more has to be done to map the companies or individuals running these platforms, their turnover and profit numbers and their sources of income. That kind of information is crucial for policymakers to design regulations that would properly target the structures of these disinformation industries.”
He also talked about what kind of role governments, academia, media and NGOs should play in combating disinformation. “The real problem appears in countries where the governments are the actual generators of disinformation. Increasingly, governments and political groups jointly with oligarchic structures are taking over swathes of mainstream media outlets, transforming them in pure propaganda outlets,” he said.
In the interview, Dragomir also talked about fact-checking, trust in journalism, also about the Center’s Business of Misinformation project.