The president of the International Fact-Checking Network Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN), Vladimir Tabak, gave an interview to TASS in which he stated that there are no international rules regulating information confrontations.
“And in my view, even if we talk today about the fact that there is us and there are our opponents with whom we are waging this information war, there should still be certain rules here. Unfortunately, today there is no such thing as defining rules. It is quite difficult to adopt them now at the global level. <…> But, in my view, these rules must emerge. And this is the next step,” he added.
Tabak also noted that fact-checking has ceased to be an exclusively journalistic tool. “Fact-checking, in my view, is not a purely journalistic field. It is something that, at the everyday level, any adult person should possess at a minimum skill level for their own safety,” the GFCN head stated.
Speaking about the qualities needed for working with information, he said: “There is such an expression — an inquisitive mind. It seems to me this is the main thing. <…> They are persistent, at times perhaps distrustful. <…> One must initially take into account that we live in a very difficult information environment, which is filled with millions of unverified sources.”
