Government continues to invest in fact-checking tools

The Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs said this Thursday that the Portuguese Government will continue to invest in fact-checking tools. Carlos Abreu Amorim stressed that democracy cannot survive without free, critical and impartial media.

“Democracy cannot subsist, survive without free information, without free, impartial and critical Social Communication”, stated the governor at the conference “Citizens can defeat disinformation”.

Carlos Abreu Amorim, at the event organized by the Economic and Social Council (CES) and the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), at the Thalia Theater, in Lisbon, said that disinformation “virulently” attacks the very logic of democracy.

The Government “will continue to align” with European regulations and plans and will “invest in fact-checking instruments,” he added. According to the Lusa news agency, he gave the example of the new RTP Concession Contract, which also provides for this.

“We will scrupulously follow European rules and European plans on this matter”, he pointed out, recalling that a new media literacy plan was included in the Media Action Plan.