Media education does not have to be an additional subject for students, but be inserted in all disciplines, to protect young people from online manipulations and dangerous ideological influences, said CNA vice -president Valentin Jucan, told Digi 24 on Sunday.
Valentin Jucan, CNA vice president. PHOTO: Video/ YouTube capture
“I discovered online nests that were made up of groups of young people who promoted socialist, communist and fascist ideas,” explained Jucan, stressing that they are real young, not false boots or accounts.
Asked how the Romanian society would describe in front of Russia’s Information War, Jucan said: “” We are vulnerable. How vulnerable we are in front of the information war that the President of Romania was appointed? I am afraid that if next year we had elections again, the result would be about the same. And not because the authorities do not take a lot of content, but probably because we do not have to do in a year, year old”.
He stressed the importance of media education as a national security issue: “The atmosphere in society is one that I do not realize when it will explode in the sense of boiling of ideas and renouncing any civilized dialogue. You are either. Technologies that do not make awareness.
About how media education should be implemented, Jucan explained: “We will ask the Presidential Administration to dedicate a very clear chapter to media education. And media education does not necessarily mean an additional subject, we do not support this. Media education must be inserted in all subjects. And I will give an example: History. How can a young man who did not live in communism to be nostalgic after communism? The illusion of some times long, the golden age, in which it was much better. “
Regarding young people promoting dangerous ideological ideas, Jucan added: “It is a question to which sociologists, teachers, psychologists should come and provide a public answer, because we see this behavior online because we receive notifications regarding the promotion of the communist regime. We discovered online nests that were made up of groups of young people who promoted socialist, communist and fascist ideas. Organized in these so-called discussion clubs, but which promote online including through the positions and the content created the communist regime ”.
