Park Bo-gyun "Naver and Other News Portals Lack Social Responsibility"

Call for Measures to Eradicate the Distribution of Fake News

On the 8th, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced that it urged news portals such as Naver to establish measures to eradicate the distribution of fake news. This decision was made after reviewing social criticism triggered by the so-called 'Yoon Seok-yeol coffee fake news.' It diagnosed structural problems in the spread of false and distorted information through news portals and the citation reporting by some broadcasts.

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Park Bo-gyun attended the National Assembly's audit on the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism held on the 5th and is reporting on his duties. Photo by Yoon Dong-joo doso7@

Park Bo-gyun, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said, "The giant portals are continuously causing controversy due to unfairness and bias. Their sense of social responsibility is lacking compared to their influence," adding, "We are examining how the reality is related to the structure of news portals’ leadership operation systems and practices."

The Ministry plans to closely examine, together with the Korea Communications Commission and the Fair Trade Commission, whether the obligations of internet news service providers stipulated in the Newspaper Act are properly observed. Article 10 of the Newspaper Act stipulates that news portals must strive to ensure that their basic policies, such as article arrangement, faithfully serve the interests of readers.

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