{"id":1305908,"date":"2025-10-14T11:41:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-crisis-of-journalism-they-are-replacing-freedom-with-manipulation\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:57:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:57:42","slug":"the-crisis-of-journalism-they-are-replacing-freedom-with-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-crisis-of-journalism-they-are-replacing-freedom-with-manipulation\/","title":{"rendered":"When News Becomes Control: The Crisis of Modern Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Source: Author&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/valerii.pekar\/posts\/pfbid02DssyrAt9kvww1S8FgP9cNPZbqG77PB58QeQcKwtKifjUcuFN6ZTt4CGEGPkTYHWHl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>We\u2019ve always lived in a world where journalists are legally responsible for their words. Remember how many lawsuits Donald Trump filed against the American media \u2014 he may be wrong, but he has the right to do it. But whom can we hold accountable today? The anonymous Telegram channel \u201cJoker\u201d can write that you and I are lovers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"71\" data-end=\"318\">It\u2019s one thing to marvel at technology \u2014 we can now even create AI-generated photos of our weddings \u2014 but why should we accept false information as truth? If someone is not legally accountable for their statements, this is not freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"320\" data-end=\"469\">What we are seeing is the replacement of freedom with manipulation. Durov, a product of the Lubyanka system, understands these mechanics perfectly.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"471\" data-end=\"561\">The same applies to Musk\u2019s social media platforms. Algorithms are not freedom of speech.<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/knockout-television-how-telethon-is-destroying-professional-journalism\/\">Telethon Knockout: How State TV Is Beating Real Journalism to Death<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"71\" data-end=\"366\">When we open \u201cX\u201d and see hundreds of thousands of tweets from Elon Musk, Donald Trump, or Vance, this is not freedom of thought \u2014 it\u2019s programmed delivery. We don\u2019t even see labels marking paid content. We are led to believe this reflects public opinion, but it\u2019s just curated, paid messaging.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"368\" data-end=\"598\">When TikTok flooded Romanian users with all of C\u0103lin Georgescu\u2019s posts, that wasn\u2019t freedom of speech \u2014 it was manipulation. And if Trump wanted to buy TikTok to show only his videos, that would be manipulation too, not freedom.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"600\" data-end=\"1030\">I am certain that when such manipulations reach a critical point, humanity will react. Without legal mechanisms of accountability, this could lead to a violent uprising against the system, as has happened in the past under authoritarian regimes. Today, under the guise of \u201cfreedom of speech,\u201d we are being sold the illusion of freedom while actually being subjected to manipulation. And this is precisely what I want to prevent.<\/p>\n<p>Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 Materials published in the \u201cOPINIONS\u201d section reflect the opinion of the author of the publication, who bears full responsibility for the accuracy of the information.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 The editorial staff of prm.ua may not share the opinions expressed in the author&#8217;s material.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 The owner of the webpage in the \u201cOPINIONS\u201d section is the author of the publication.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Author&#8217;s Facebook page We\u2019ve always lived in a world where journalists are legally responsible for their words. Remember how many lawsuits Donald Trump filed against the American media \u2014 he may be wrong, but he has the right to do it. But whom can we hold accountable today? The anonymous Telegram channel \u201cJoker\u201d can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1306406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76893],"class_list":["post-1305908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306409,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305908\/revisions\/1306409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1306406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}