What Nela spoke about.

Madam President, this is true – I saw it on TikTok. Until a few weeks ago, I was working as a teacher back in Germany and that is what my 16-year-old students would tell me on a regular basis. As a teacher it was my job to train young people to recognise and also withstand disinformation. And believe me, that wasn't easy. I was not only confronted with young people telling me that they believed everything they saw on the internet, but also with their parents and that is, in times of hybrid wars, an actual security risk. A resilient society needs access to free public and factual information. This is our responsibility to our youth. We make sure that independent broadcasting remains available and is not at the whim of political moods in our Member States. If we don't actively protect and also foster the important work of independent journalists in Europe, all 16-year-olds will not be able to access reliable information and that is the future we are facing.