▲ President Lee Jae-myung listens to reports during a briefing by government ministries held at the Blue House Guest House on the 15th.
President Lee Jae-myung ordered a real-time, fact-based response today (July 15), stating, "Fake news is currently disrupting the entire world and creating a hostile and confrontational culture to the extent that it is destroying our community."
President Lee made the remarks during a work report by the National Data Agency and other ministries, which he presided over at the Blue House Guest House, in response to a report by National Data Agency Commissioner Ahn Hyung-jun on the possibility of using AI (artificial intelligence) for fact-checking news articles.
President Lee mentioned, "There was even a media outlet that ran a front-page story claiming that while the Republic of Korea's rifles are cheap, old-fashioned ones, the President is boasting about having an expensive, state-of-the-art rifle all to himself."
He continued, "This is a firearm that has been issued to 170,000 members of the South Korean military and is almost universally used. Such nonsensical reporting to attack the government would not have happened if real-time fact-checking had been possible."
He was re-emphasizing the importance of real-time fact-checking by referring to a report claiming that the rifle President Lee used during his visit to the Yeonpyeong Unit last month was not sufficiently supplied to frontline troops.
Two days ago, President Lee cited an article refuting the report on his social media, stating, "Political attacks based on fabrication, rather than fact-based reporting, are not an appropriate attitude for the media."
When President Lee suggested, "It seems we could systematically analyze such influential fake news immediately and provide counterarguments based on facts," Commissioner Ahn replied, "We plan to build the system starting next year."
(Photo: Blue House Press Corps, Yonhap News)
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