TRT General Manager Mehmet Zahid Sobacı announced at Stratcom Youth: International Young Communicators Forum that they are preparing to build an international digital streaming platform that will be an alternative to Netflix.
Sobacı, although he did not give any details about the platform, underlined that the targeted date is 2023. Mehmet Zahid Sobacı, who also said that TRT will continue to invest in movies and games, also criticized social media.
Sobacı’s statements were as follows: “While it was claimed that social media would be an area where individuals could express their opinions more freely, it suddenly became a medium for fake news and disinformation. While promising a space of freedom in the digital age, chaos, uncertainty and social media fed by exaggeration has emerged. 70% of social media users say that they use social media as a source of information and news. As soon as social media assumed the function of being a source of information and news, it inevitably turned into areas where disinformation and manipulation were experienced intensely. An environment where fake news, news in need of confirmation or misleading news, images are shared with the label of certain information without going through any control mechanism. walked to a point.”
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