What Ivaylo spoke about.

Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to an aspect of disinformation and fake news that we talk about very little. Fake news, which is spread by the official media and often even created on their own orders. I'm talking about polls, especially those that are done and published in the weeks leading up to an election. It has long been no secret that sociological surveys are made not to reflect the opinion of society, but to form and manipulate it. And if fake news can be verified and refuted, then this official sociology cannot. The public has no real opportunity to verify the exported data, which often – at least in my country, Bulgaria – directly influences the behaviour of voters, and this is a direct interference in the democratic process. Commissioner, I know this is a difficult fight, but we need legislation that equates tendential sociology with the spread of fake news and makes its creators accountable for it.