{"id":512519,"date":"2026-01-26T21:39:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=512519"},"modified":"2026-01-27T09:24:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:24:26","slug":"belarusian-propagandists-planned-to-gather-in-sofia-to-learn-how-to-fight-fakes-but-bulgaria-called-the-information-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-propagandists-planned-to-gather-in-sofia-to-learn-how-to-fight-fakes-but-bulgaria-called-the-information-fake","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Propagandists Planned To Gather In Sofia To Learn How To Fight Fakes, But Bulgaria Called The Information Fake"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On January 9, the Minsk-Novosti agency reported that the Union of Bulgarian Journalists had invited representatives of the Belarusian Union of Journalists to take part in a discussion titled \u201cArtificial Intelligence and the Fight Against Fake News: Which Solution Will Prove Most Effective?\u201d The event is being held in Sofia on January 26, with online participation also available. However, the Bulgarian service of Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty found that no such invitation had been issued.<\/p>\n

As the chair of the Union of Bulgarian Journalists, Snezhana Todorova<\/b>, told Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty, the published information is \u201ca vivid example of a fake.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is fake news and an active measure. It is not the first time someone wants to strike at the Union of Bulgarian Journalists and personally at me,\u201d<\/i> she said.<\/p>\n

Tododova added that \u201cone would have to be mentally deficient to invite Belarusian journalists, knowing that they would not be able to come.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Tododova also confirmed to the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry that the Minsk-Novosti publication was fake. The ministry sent her an official note after receiving information from Bulgaria\u2019s embassy in Poland, which in turn had received a signal from the United Transitional Cabinet.<\/p>\n

The website of the Union of Bulgarian Journalists lists Georgi Gotev and Kalina Angelova, representatives of the EU-funded EU4Debunk project, as lecturers and moderators of the event.<\/p>\n

Gotev told Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty that he was not aware of any invited Belarusian journalists, but said the event was \u201copen to everyone.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Snezhana Todorova is known in Bulgaria as a supporter of Russia. In 2025, she received the Order of Friendship from Vladimir Putin<\/b>, and in July 2024 she visited Belarus, writing enthusiastically about the country.<\/p>\n

The Union of Bulgarian Journalists has continued cooperation with official Belarusian and Russian media even after Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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On January 9, the Minsk-Novosti agency reported that the Union of Bulgarian Journalists had invited representatives of the Belarusian Union of Journalists to take part in a discussion titled \u201cArtificial Intelligence and the Fight Against Fake News: Which Solution Will Prove Most Effective?\u201d The event is being held in Sofia on January 26, with online […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":512518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/69785a212960e.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Propagandists Planned To Gather In Sofia To Learn How To Fight Fakes, But Bulgaria Called The Information Fake"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}