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The permanent platform EBA about the nature of fake news was launched in Geneva.

On 28th of July 2019 at the Palace of Nations, as part of the Public Hearing dedicated to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) under the initiative of Europe Business Assembly and ‘EBA Global’ Loyalty Programme Mr. Ivan Savvov made a presentation about different types of disinformation as well as explained how and why the pre-paid article about EBA activity in the ‘Times’ appeared.

The concept of the EBA project ‘Anti-fake news Investigation Agency’ was supported by representatives of the business community from more than 20 countries.

Europe Business Assembly has got the special consultancy status of the United Nations Organization since 2018. One of the priority tasks in this status is to promote the activities of the world organizations in the fight against ‘fake-news’.

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Photo: Director of EBA Mr. Ivan Savvov made a report at the UN headquarters

THANK YOU MESSAGE

Mr. ION STERIAN- DIRECTOR GENERAL SNTGN TRANSGAZ SA 

ACHIEVEMENTS FORUM

Lifetime Achievements Award – 2022 and the ”The Star of Success” medal

Distinguished guests, 

It is an honour to be nominated for such an important award, especially since the process of selecting the nominees for the Lifetime Achievements Award, 2022 edition, was carried out by experts within the Europe Business Assembly. 

I hold in high regard Achievements Forum's mission to increase business activity, establish partnerships inside regions and exchange best practices within companies, educational and scientific institutions and in the field of land management. 

I am delighted to be nominated for the accomplishments that are behind SNTGN Transgaz SA's performance, a company that has put the Romanian flag on Europe's energy map by way of investment projects such as BRUA phase 1, the Ungheni-Chișinău gas pipeline or many other investment objectives that represent investments in a sustainable future. 

In Transgaz, we have been working hard and we are continuously working hard, we are aiming for performance and we achieve performance for Romania, for our country to be a generator of energy security and so that the resources that God blessed us with are used for the economic development and for raising the standard of living of all Romanians.

As you are well aware, SNTGN TRANSGAZ SA is the technical operator of the National Gas Transmission System (NTS) and ensures the performance in terms of efficiency, transparency, safety, non-discriminatory access and competitiveness of the national strategy established for domestic and international natural gas transmission, natural gas dispatching, as well as research and design in the field of activity, in compliance with the national and European legislation and with the standards of quality, performance, environment and sustainable development. 

On behalf of all of Transgaz’ employees, I wish to thank you for this honour and I assure you that Transgaz will always be engaged and will always live up to the mission it has been entrusted with. 

We are a united team, a team that is aware that the successful accomplishment of its mission means having a more energetically secure and economically prosperous country and region.

Thank you!

Discussion of the dangers of fake news and the fight against it in the media is the subject of a report by Europe Business Assembly Director Ivan Savvov at public hearings in the United Nations on February 20, 2020 in Geneva at the Palais des Nations at the initiative of the European Business Assembly.

Fake news over the past decade has become a media phenomenon that is increasingly mentioned by heads of state and international leaders. And with the development of social networks  almost every inhabitant of our planet regularly encounters them.

‘In recent years, the massive dissemination of fake news disguised as news has reached a critical point and deserves serious attention. If we consider news journalism as a kind of journalistic genre, then today we can talk about the existence of ‘fake news parajournalism’, - says Ivan Savvov, director of Europe Business Assembly.

The concept of ‘fake’ combines a number of components of a modern media environment, which includes not only fake texts, but also photos, video and audio recordings. This is about artificially created popular personalities who act as opinion leaders and distributors of fake news, artificial popular projects that are specially promoted with the help of Internet bots, and the same fake accounts that are made using massive “likes” and positive comments able to set the perception and dissemination of fake information and the necessary public opinion.

At the same time, in modern society there is not even a clear definition and delimitation of such concepts as ‘fake news’, ‘false information’, ‘desinformation’. At its core, fake news is stylistically created like real news, but partially or completely false message about current or already occurring events. To combat such fake news, the Europe Business Assembly created the Anti-fake news Investigation Agency (AIA) in April 2019. 

AIA main tasks are:

•  - Promoting education of the public and journalists about the negative effects of fake news on the formation of society;
•  - Helping the world community to combat misinformation and fabricated news, messages based on unverified or anonymous sources;
•  - Protecting victims of fake information attacks and providing an objective and transparent platform for expressing true information.

Why is it important to actively fight against fake news?

According to the director of Europe Business Assembly Ivan Savvov, the problem of fake news and online aggression is very important for society, public figures, business and social media. The toxicity of the media space filled with fake messages can not only scare potential customers and users, but also seriously damage the reputation. Moreover, the more popular the resource is, the more attractive it looks for distributors of false content.

Journalists have already noted that fake news is harmful to both small regional publications and large ones with a worldwide reputation, as a result the users and readers are deceived and in the future they become apathetic to the news.

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