At the Buenos Aires headquarters of the National Electoral Chamber (CNE), the pre-candidates for the next elections sat down at a table to sign a new commitment to combat disinformation on social networks and other digital environments within the framework of the electoral process. The pact, which already has two antecedents, and which is promoted by the CNE had the nod of all political forces and the Supreme Court.
At noon, from patricia bullrich, for Together for Change, accompanied by his running mate Luis Petri, passing through Germán Martínez, the president of the Chamber of Deputies of Unión por la Patria, to Marcela Pagano, for Libertad Avanza, they met on the first floor of the street May 25. Good looks dominated the scene and, in a context dominated by fake news and trolls, everyone aimed to try to generate proselytizing actions without cheap shots. Leaders of the Left Front did not attend the event.
Yes, representatives of the companies Meta, Twitter, Google and Tik Tok did; the Latin American Internet Association (ALAI); the Association of Journalistic Entities (ADEPA); the Argentine Journalism Forum (FOPEA); the Association of Journalists of the Argentine Republic (APeRA); the Agence France-Presse news agency, the Association of Digital Journalism (APD). Horacio Rosatti, president of the CSJN, also attended.
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As highlighted by the CNE, the purpose of the commitment signed by the summoned entities was dedicated to “the honesty of the democratic debate in the next national elections, in order to contribute to reducing the negative effects of the dissemination of false content and other disinformation tactics in social networks and other digital environments.
An important detail: this text that you signed does not have a penalty in case of non-compliance because it does not have legislation that protects it. In other words, good practices when disseminating content on social networks depend purely and exclusively on political forces.
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The words of the protagonists
By the way, before the consultation of PROFILEDeputy Martínez stressed that first one must try to move towards self-regulation: “Anything you do afterwards says that you violate freedom of expression, but this is an important step that exists and improves. We have downloaded spots contrary to good practices in the digital environment”. “The networks are good for communication and political debate, but they are bad for fake news,” she added. And highlight the presence of weighty actors from across the political arc in the call for electoral Justice.
Within this framework, Florencio Randazzo, candidate for the vice presidency for Hacemos led by Juan Schiaretti, argued that initiatives of this type cannot be legislated for the future. He even added that fighting and penalizing false news from all around it will be harmed, not just those that will circulate from digital environments.
