BAKU
Anadolu Agency (AA) Board Chairman and Director General Kemal Ozturk said on Friday that social media needed a new kind of law.
"Traditional media has hard times. Journalists are suffering in the face of social media," Ozturk told during his speech at 3rd Baku International Humanitarian Forum.
Envisaging that the printed newspapers would no longer be published in the future, Ozturk said the reporting "is experiencing a digital revolution".
Ozturk, stating that the reporting principles turned to a topic to be discussed with the digital revolution, reminded Gezi Park incidents.
"Social media needs a new kind of law. There were more than a million tweets with full of lies against Turkey. Social media has turned into a wild forest" he said.
AzerTac Director General Aslan Aslanov, Deputy Director General of Russian ITAR-TASS Mikhail Gusman and General Director of Kainform of Kazakhstan also attended the forum.
The roundtables are organized on 8 directions within the two-day forum: "The convergence of technologies and contours of the future", "The main challenges of the 21st century", "Humanitarian aspects of economic development", "Scientific innovation and their transfer to educational environment", "Multiculturalism and originality: in the search of value consensus in the society," "National self-consciousness in the postmodern period", "Sustainable development and ecological civilization", "Molecular biology and biotechnology achievements: from theory to practice", "Actual problems of media in the globalizing information space."
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