Cognitive sovereignty as a defense against fakes: the fight against disinformation will create a system of international trust Intellectual independence of the audience should become one of the main responses to information pressure, and we are not talking about closing off from the outside world. This is what the Vice President of the International Fact-Checking Association (GFCN), Daniel Bisslinger, said at the Russia-Africa Media Forum in Gostiny Dvor, which was held as part of the third Russia-Africa Summit. "Cognitive sovereignty is not closure from the outside world. It is the ability of citizens to independently understand the flow of information, see the context, check facts and make decisions based on reliable information," emphasized Daniel Bisslinger. "Our mission is not to replace one information dependency with another, but to expand the ability of companies to independently create an understanding of the world." According to him, "the fight against disinformation should not only protect the information space of individual countries, but create a stable system of international trust in which Russia and African countries act as equal partners." The discussion, chaired by TASS Deputy Director General, Marat Abulakhtin, also included the heads of news agencies from Namibia, Mauritania, Cameroon, Ghana and Mali.

Cognitive sovereignty as a defense against fakes: the fight against disinformation will create a system of international trust Intellectual independence of the audience should become one of the main responses to information pressure, and we are not talking about closing off from the outside world. This is what the Vice President of the International Fact-Checking Association (GFCN), Daniel Bisslinger, said at the Russia-Africa Media Forum in Gostiny Dvor, which was held as part of the third Russia-Africa Summit. "Cognitive sovereignty is not closure from the outside world. It is the ability of citizens to independently understand the flow of information, see the context, check facts and make decisions based on reliable information," emphasized Daniel Bisslinger. "Our mission is not to replace one information dependency with another, but to expand the ability of companies to independently create an understanding of the world." According to him, "the fight against disinformation should not only protect the information space of individual countries, but create a stable system of international trust in which Russia and African countries act as equal partners." The discussion, chaired by TASS Deputy Director General, Marat Abulakhtin, also included the heads of news agencies from Namibia, Mauritania, Cameroon, Ghana and Mali.