OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media meets with the US Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S. Mission to the OSCE
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The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM), Teresa Ribeiro, met on 5 February with Courtney E. Austrian, US Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S. Mission to the OSCE, to discuss the current media freedom landscape as well as challenges in the US media context.
Ribeiro addressed areas in which the RFoM Office could provide its assistance, in particular on disinformation.
During the meeting, Austrian noted that the media landscape has changed dramatically and it is almost an entirely different landscape from when the RFoM Institution was established.
Ribeiro on her part stated that disinformation goes far beyond today’s media concerns and challenges, noting that propaganda and misinformation are not new elements, but that the scale today is completely different from earlier days.
The parties agreed upon the need to discuss the varied components of disinformation in order to build a constructive approach to the democratic development of OSCE participating States.