Head of Communications Burhanettin Duran delivers remarks at “Safe Society in the Digital Age: Risks and Solutions” Panel:
"We are living through an era in which access to information has become easier, communication reaches a global scale within seconds, and borders have largely lost their meaning.
While the digital age offers vast opportunities, it also brings with it new threats and serious challenges.
Cyberattacks, misuse of personal data, disinformation, manipulation, digital addiction, online fraud, and cyberbullying are among the foremost of these threats.
These challenges, without a doubt, constitute critical security concerns that affect public institutions, media organisations, digital platforms, families, and society as a whole.
Information pollution and disinformation are today among the most insidious threats targeting the peace, the sense of unity, and the collective wisdom of societies. In an environment where truth and falsehood are increasingly intertwined, and accurate information can be swiftly discredited, safeguarding the integrity of truth is a shared responsibility for us all.
As the Presidency’s Directorate of Communications, our primary objective—under the vision of our President—is to establish a communication ecosystem centred on truth and justice.
We are utilising all available means to combat disinformation and to prevent epistemological poisoning.
By sharing accurate information with the public in a timely and reliable manner, we contribute to fostering a healthy communication environment.
In our latest work within this scope, we are making the websites of our public institutions readable for large language models in response to the growing threats of disinformation and fabricated content driven by AI technologies.
Thus, we contribute to ensuring that artificial intelligence tools take as reference not fabricated, false or inaccurate information but accurate and verified information."