The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs stresses the importance of empowering young people to face the torrent of misleading information

The Minister of Parliamentary and Legal Affairs and Political Communication, Counselor Mahmoud Fawzi, stressed the importance of empowering young people, providing correct information to them, and building their self -confidence and reliable sources, in the face of the torrent of misleading information. Al -Ghaffar, Deputy Prime Minister for Human Development and Minister of Health and Population. & quot; in the past, media and awareness tools were traditional tools, and it was possible to control the content directed to the public. Today, the mobile phone has become an open window on the entire world, as the information is the one who comes to the citizen, and not the opposite .. This is imperative for us to work to enable young people to discriminate, understand and analyze themselves & quot;
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and Counselor Mahmoud Fawzi stressed that this can only be achieved through four basic pillars, the first is to empower young people of critical thinking, that is, any critical thinking, i.e. Providing them with the so -called & quot; cognitive empowerment & quot; meaning that the young man has the ability to distinguish between information and news, and between propaganda and truth, especially since we cannot pursue every false or misleading news, but we can promise young people able to distinguish the correct information from falsely false.
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and continued: & quot The second pillar, which is that it is not permissible to leave a void between young people and the correct information, and if there are platforms that publish misleading information, then there must be reliable platforms that provide sound and attractive content, reaching young people and earning their confidence & quot;
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and continued: & quot; and the third pillar is political communication One of the first times in which there is a ministerial portfolio specialized in this field & quot, explaining that political communication does not only mean the transmission of messages from one side to another, but it is a deeper process based on linking the components of society together, enhancing confidence, and bringing views closer, especially in the moments in which opinions may differ, so the idea of the difference is not a defect, but the important thing is how to manage this difference in a way Building.
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