{"id":128843,"date":"2022-09-28T15:52:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T22:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=128843"},"modified":"2022-09-28T15:52:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T22:52:41","slug":"president-media-gets-new-unit-to-counter-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/09\/28\/president-media-gets-new-unit-to-counter-disinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"President Media gets new unit to counter disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>In parallel with the International Day for Universal Access to Information which falls today, a new unit Counter Disinformation Unit\u201d was launched by the President Media division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This program was initiated under the guidance of President\u2019s Secretary Saman Ekanayake at the President\u2019s Office in Colombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the aim of countering disinformation and to solve public problems immediately a new webpage Response\u201d was also launched by the President Media Division this evening (28th).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(pmd.gov.lk\/counter-disinformation -unit) President\u2019s attention has been constantly drawn to the public problems which appear in the media, and one of the objectives of the new unit established today is to verify the news and direct it to the relevant authorities of the government to solve the people\u2019s problems promptly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was observed recently that the real problems of the people have been suppressed and there has been more room for intentional disinformation. Accordingly, the new unit will identify the disinformation and reveal the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror In parallel with the International Day for Universal Access to Information which falls today, a new unit Counter Disinformation Unit\u201d was launched by the President Media division. This program was initiated under the guidance of President\u2019s Secretary Saman Ekanayake at the President\u2019s Office in Colombo. With the aim of countering disinformation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}