Accord­ing to Vatica­n, this year's World Day of Social Commun­icatio­ns will be marked on June 2VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Thursday warned against the “disinformation” and “targeted distortion of facts” to be found on the Internet and social networks’ “manipulation of personal data”. The Internet “is a source of knowledge and relationships that were once unthinkable,” the Argentine pope said in a message for the World Day of Social Communications. “However… many experts also highlight the risks that threaten the search for, and sharing of, authentic information on a global scale,” he said. “If the Internet represents an extraordinary possibility of access to knowledge, it is also true that it has proven to be one of the areas most exposed to disinformation and to the conscious and targeted distortion of facts,” the Argentine pope said. On social networks, “we define ourselves starting with what divides us rather than with what unites us, giving rise to suspicion and to the venting of every kind of prejudice,” the pontiff said.

Source: The Express Tribune January 24, 2019 15:11 UTC