Daria Yuryeva: “The algorithms are instruments to control public opinions"

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In her speech at the “Voices of the New World” Forum, Daria Yuryeva, Head of the Latin American Department at Sputnik News Agency, denounced the systematic censorship exercised by large digital platforms against independent and alternative media. She condemned the arbitrary manner in which some tech corporations block content or restrict its reach through opaque algorithms, noting that these practices are instruments of geopolitical control and public opinion. Her speech emphasized that digital censorship is a global phenomenon that affects all media outlets with independent editorial lines, calling for coordinated action to guarantee the right to free information.  #DigitalCensorship #FreeMedia #GlobalSouth #Sputnik #TeleSUREnglish

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00:00the platform administration considers them unwanted for any kind of reason the pretext

00:13that is used to justify such actions in general rule of thumb is is the struggle against the fake

00:19news but who decides what something is false or not the same corporations that own these digital

00:27platforms or forced in other cases they talk about the so-called devaluations of the terms of use of the

00:36social media the same time the red lines that cannot be crossed are not clearly defined and

00:42also they don't always correspond to common sense some other times the reason for a blockade is are

00:50the restrictive measures imposed by a particular or several governments against a concrete media

00:56which is a clear act of censorship when it's not a blockade is something these other ways to

01:05complicate the work and I mean to these tools that are caused about as algorithms that make it possible

01:14for us for our product to be visible to the users the other is algorithm are not only used to help

01:23the user to for him to receive for him or her to receive the the elements that which but is there

01:30actually instruments to control the public opinions also in the Russian media we face all kind of

01:37restrictive measures like the one I've just described and sometimes we say we are them we are the most

01:43censored media in the world because with the passing of time we are the most the ones that have the

01:51most restrictions that we must understand that we are not and will never be the only one because the

01:57communication media of any country that has a policy independent policy a total policy are not immune to

02:03these kind of measures and for some years for some years we have seen like the then Twitter mark the the

02:13accounts of Cuba the of Cuba debate as a media affiliated with the government of Cuba we sold the case of

02:20blockades against them telesur accounts and their colleagues in Nicaragua also reported the case of

02:26blocking of its content under formal pretext that behind week we would see the political reasons

02:34however we we won't paint at all black and this from this part of the of my speech I'm going from the

02:41challenges to the solutions in relations to what we just said we can define two possible strategies of

02:47interaction with social platforms that are not excluded exclusive among themselves and can be combined

02:52there first the most ambitious is to create is to seek or create alternative platforms that have

03:00use policies user policies that are truly democratic and it's easier to do it together joining forces in a

03:07complex tax because the platform must be attractive for the users but it's not impossible and we have been

03:14doing this already in other parts of the world in the global south or how we say in Russia in the

03:20majority of the world because because due to geography is very difficult to be called as a part of the south

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