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I think that this event is a timely framework to debate on the manipulation of information and the danger it represents for society, the Brazilian journalist Beto Almeida said in reference to the meeting that will take place on January 21 and 22 at Havana’s Hotel Nacional de Cuba.
Almeida told Prensa Latina that the issue of informative truth and non-truth is increasingly gaining political relevance and a great social impact.
This situation of manipulation and fake news can cause tragedies, wars and very harmful changes for the people, as in the case of Brazil, thus the importance of debating this crucial issue at the forum, Almeida added.
For his part, the Colombian journalist Jorge Enrique Botero noted that he is very interested in attending the two-day meeting, because the topics to be debated are fully in force and will be discussed by participants with a high intellectual level and experience in the sector.
It will be an important occasion to reflect on the situation of Latin American journalism in the light of new technologies that have transformed our profession completely, Botero added.
According to the analyst, it is very important to speak about the dangers of exercising journalism at present, in a region where denouncing crimes and challenging the political, economic and media power are often paid with life.
At the forum, which will recall the 60th anniversary of Operation Truth, professionals from the sector in the region and other parts of the world will seek answers to the challenge posed by the need to exercise journalism committed to truth and common good.
Operation Truth was a meeting of 400 foreign journalists in Havana when the Revolution was 20 days old, so that they could have first-hand information about the trials of criminals of war from the overthrown dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, amid lies about that process. (Taken from Prensa Latina)
