DHAKA, May 2, 2024 (BSS) – State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat today said the government, civil society and mass media can be partners to fight together against the agenda based motivated journalism and disinformation campaign. and let’s accept the truth,” he told a panel discussion at the MIDAS centre in the city’s Dhanmondi area, on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day. We do have an understanding that press freedom is all about right reporting,” Arafat added. As disinformation exists in society and everywhere else simultaneously, he said, the press freedom is very useful only when it is used in the right way. But when the press freedom is abused through disinformation campaign, it negatively affects the democratic progress of society and the people at large.
