Today, major media in Poland did not display their content in protest against plans to cut their advertising revenues by the government. NATO countries should treat advertising markets as an element of democratic security. Altering revenue streams is bad news for media advertising. It is also an open door invitation for more disinformation business.
Visegrad Insight has been continuously warning against the damage to the advertising market which increases the corruption of the media ecosystem and exposes democracies to foreign malign influence in the shape of disinformation. Our maps out dangers to media and advertising ecosystem that could irreversibly expose Central Europe to the hostile influence of hostile actors. As it turns out one of the scenarios is now unfolding in Poland, where the government is using the crisis to cut media revenues and curb press freedom.
Director of the EAST analytical center
Andrei Yeliseyeu wrote on Facebook about how the death toll from coronavirus in Belarus in 2020 can be calculated.
Actually, the expert has already counted and stated that the death rate in the country over the past year was at least 20 thousand people:
“Government agencies have classified all statistics on mortality and population size and are hesitant to report the horrifying number of deaths from coronavirus due to “the world s most successful approach”. Let s use three methods to estimate the real mortality from the coronavirus.
Analysis of the mortality of medical workers. Since the overall mortality rate is many times underestimated, and the death of medical workers is not easy to hide, Belarus has an abnormally high proportion of deaths among doctors.
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