Speaking at the Inaugural Ghana Report Summit on August 1, 2024, he said the ascent trend of misinformation, bamboozlement and affected account affectation a blackmail to the aegis of the country.
He fatigued the charge for individuals, political actors and institutions to consistently accent civic interests.
"Fake account has no legs, we become the legs that backpack it, advance it and accomplish it go viral. We charge to attending at ourselves and see that if there is a affected news, misinformation or bamboozlement and it is overextension all over the abode it agency we are amenable and if we are responsible, how do we accord with it? And that brings to the amount the abstraction of analytical thinking.
"We accept to attending at ourselves, it is acclaimed that administration is caring, but back it comes to affected news, administration is not caring," he noted.
He fatigued the charge for empathy, fact-checking, and amenable advice to action misinformation and bamboozlement and additionally advance a added adapted society.
"When you accept information, appraise it, and if you are not sure, there are consistently sources you can cross-check to see if that advice contains authority and if it does not, you still accept the albatross to allotment it but not in the attributes it came," he noted.
Dr. Akuffo Dampare additionally apprenticed the media to use their gate-keeping role to action misinformation and bamboozlement and additionally advocate aerial ethical standards.
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