Media overview – January

12.02.2019

The approaching elections was gave a lot of colour to the stories published in the media about influence activities.

In January, the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee published a report on „Preparedness to eliminate intervention in the elections as in the Western countries“ as well as the European Commission Representation in Estonia organized a discussion between President Kersti Kaljulaid and the Vice-President of the European Commission, Andrus Ansip on fighting false information in Europe.

Russian propaganda channels was another major area where the topic of influence activities was written about.

The most spoken text of the month was published in the cultural journal „Sirp“ on the topic of using fake research.

The Possibility of influence activities in Estonia and Europe
Postimees – Ansip: older people believe fake information more easily
https://www.postimees.ee/6508282/ansip-vanemad-inimesed-usuvad-libainfot-kergemini

President Kersti Kaljulaid’s and the Vice-President of the European Commission, Andrus Ansip’s discussion on combating fake information in Europe
https://www.err.ee/903313/ansip-valeinformatsioon-on-uuenenud

Curiosity of the month
Further to the previous block, ETV+ managed to act quite unbelievably, namely the National Broadcasting Agency’s Russian language channel invited a representative from the Russian propaganda channel, Sputnik as well as the editor-in-chief of the Postimees’ Russian – language section to come and discuss matters. The National Broadcasting Agency should know that Sputnik is not a legitimate publisher and there are no journalists working there.

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Media overview – January