Russian, North Korean State Media Team Up to Fight ‘Fake News’
State media outlets in Russia and North Korea have signed a new cooperation agreement that includes plans to counteract “fake news” together, the state-run TASS news agency reported Wednesday.
TASS and North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) previously signed a cooperation agreement in 2005. TASS is currently the only Russian media outlet to operate a permanent bureau in Pyongyang.
The agreement includes provisions for exchanging news stories and information in addition to countering fake news together.
“We increasingly often see misrepresentation of information in the news environment, and we must counter the dissemination of such fake news,” TASS quoted KCNA general director Kim Chan Gwang as saying. “I believe that the KCNA and TASS news agencies must join efforts toward this goal.”
TASS general director Sergei Mikhailov stressed the need to “supply news from various points of the globe, and of course from [North Korea], which is now in many respects the focus of attention of the global media.”
The two news agencies have also agreed to provide assistance to each others’ journalists, TASS reported.
Earlier this week, the head of the North Korean Foreign Ministry’s press department had said that Russian media outlets “fairly and objectively report the principled positions of leadership of [North Korea] in the ongoing disputes between Washington and Pyongyang,” TASS reported.
Countries including the United States have accused Russia of spreading so-called “fake news” as a way to influence elections and sway public opinion abroad, claims the Kremlin denies. Earlier this year, President Vladimir Putin signed a controversial law that imposes fines for spreading “fake news” online.
(c) The Moscow Times
Bhaaaaahaaaaahaaaaaaaaa!
That will go over like a lead balloon!
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Here is a good news story from NK.
The Leaders Do Not Use The Toilet
State media within North Korea has put out a number of outlandish claims to build up a cult of personality around the Supreme Leaders. Perhaps the most famous – and strangest – claim was that Kim Jong-il and Kim Il-sung did not defecate. This was likely said in support of the view that the leaders are practically gods and are supernatural in nature.
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The leaders do practically have hemorrhoids and a complete ileus…
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Maybe that’s why they are full of shit.
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Yes, I heard about that, lmao. I guess they “meditate” instead.
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Another one I remember, they claim Fat Boy was driving his own car by the age of 3. LMAO
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Why didn’t they give him a 737 Max 😊
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Could be truth there. They are full of shit.
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