Russian and North Korean news agencies join forces to fight fake news

Quote:

Originally Posted by TASS TASS Director General Sergei Mikhailov and General Director of the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) Kim Chan Gwang signed a new agreement on cooperation between the news agencies in Pyongyang on Tuesday... "The flow of information is universal, that is why we must supply news from various points of the globe, and of course from the DPRK, which is now in many respects in the focus of attention of the global media as well as political forces and resources," Mikhailov noted... The KCNA general director, for his part, highlighted the role of TASS in covering the events in the DPRK. He said that countering fake news was among the key issues in partnership of the two news agencies. "We increasingly often see misrepresentation of information in the news environment, and we must counter the dissemination of such fake news," he stressed. "I believe that KCNA and TASS news agencies must join efforts towards this goal," he added.

https://tass.com/society/1082121

via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/32amsey