ST. PETERSBURG, August 3. /TASS/. A Kazakh presidential administration official has called for setting up a joint information verification center with Russia and producing joint media content.
"A next task for joint media is ensuring reliability and efficiency. One of the instruments of addressing increasing information risks is a fact-checking mechanism. A joint information verification center may serve as such an instrument. The development of joint fact-checking protocols will help the two countries’ media outlets verify dubious data instantly. If false information about our relations surfaces on the internet, we must be able to provide a prompt, accurate, and most importantly, truthful response," Kanat Kulshmanov, head of the communications department at the Kazakh presidential administration, said at a plenary meeting of the 3rd Russian-Kazakh Media Forum.
He recalled that last year Kazakhstan inaugurated a center for combating disinformation, which adjusted international experience against the country’s realities and has already accumulated its own expertise. "I believe that joint efforts to improve the mechanism for debunking fake news will enable us to prevent any distortion of public opinion regarding Kazakhstani-Russian relations," he stressed.
