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The
site will focus on clarifying
fake news that comes from
anonymous sources.
/ A.M. Costa Rica wire
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Government
creates a website
to clarify possible fake news
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The government, through the
Ministry of Communication, created
Wednesday a website named Gobierno
Aclara to post information related
to possible fake news. The Spanish
phrase in English means the
government clarifies.
According to Nancy Marin, the
minister of Communications, on
that site will be published
official information as a response
to inaccurate news previously
published on media or even on
social networks.
The site will focus on countering
fake news that comes from
anonymous sources "when it is
openly false information about the
government," said Marin.
The minister invited the public to
verify the information published
in anonymous media, as well as to
report any malicious content found
on the web. "False information
deteriorates our democracy," she
said.
The site was inaugurated with a
post to clarify one news item
published Tuesday on the
website Diario La Carta.
According to Diario La Carta post,
representatives of the
International Monetary Fund and
the World Bank met the government
authorities to request an increase
in the value-added tax from 13 to
16 percent.
That post can be reached, in
Spanish, in the following
link*.
n response, the government said
there was not any meeting with the
World Bank or Monetary Fund to
increase taxes. Also, the
government said the new
value-added tax is not going to
increase or is there any bill to
raise taxes.
In a local media program,
Francisco Prendas, the owner and
editor of the Diario La Carta,
said the news published on his
site was made based on his
sources. Prendas is also the
president of the Nueva Republica
political party and his brother
Jonathan Prendas is an independent
deputy in the Legislative
Assembly.
Any other clarifications from the
government on news officials judge
to be incorrect will continue to
be published in Spanish on the new site
here*.
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investigation against the person
responsible for the alleged false
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