Reports confirm Turkey's superiority over the world's countries of false news

Reports showed that Turkey is superior to all countries of the world of false news, where it is difficult to distinguish between "truth and fiction" in this country, starting with Erdogan government's theory of conspiracy, the latest of which was his assassination through mental energy from the distance to news promoted by spies working within media.

18 November, 2018 13:16

NEWS DESK

Turkey outdone the countries of the world in false news as the list of countries whose population complain about the spread of false news, according to Reuters' report on the 2018 digital news.

Nearly half of Turkey's population (49 per cent) said that they faced "false news" in the week before the consideration. In contrast, the percentage in Germany has not exceeded 9 per cent.

"In a country like Turkey, it is difficult to distinguish between truth and fiction. False information is used to attract more followers," said Mark Lewin, a BBC correspondent in Istanbul.

The theory of conspiracy is spread in Turkey, where a high-level chancellor to the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that there is a conspiracy of the president's enemies to assassinate him using mental power remotely.

Many others consider that many television workers are spies.

The BBC said that 90 percent of the media in Turkey are pro-government, noting that this country has the largest number of journalist prisoners, and it occupies the number 157 in the index of freedom of the press from 180 countries.

In 2016, a young Turkish journalist launched a website to verify the authenticity of the news on the Internet.

Over the past two years, the site has ranked 526 false news, mostly political.

The Journalist Mohammed Atakan Fuka said that Tate.org based on journalistic skills and digital technology to detect false stories, adding that the number reached to 30 stories a day.

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ANHA