{"id":2300,"date":"2025-09-30T18:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medijufondas.lt\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:10:09","slug":"international-forum-on-the-importance-of-the-mrf-in-information-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medijufondas.lt\/en\/uncategorized\/international-forum-on-the-importance-of-the-mrf-in-information-warfare","title":{"rendered":"International forum \u2013 on the importance of the MRF in information warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 29 September,\u00a0Ruslanas\u00a0Ir\u017eikevi\u010dius, Director of the Media Support Fund,\u00a0participated\u00a0in an international forum held at the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania entitled “Information Warfare: How Do We Fight Back? Experiences of Poland,\u00a0Finland\u00a0and Lithuania”.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

During the forum, experts, policymakers, journalists, representatives of the academic community and non-governmental\u00a0organisations\u00a0discussed current challenges in information security, shared their experiences and best practices in combating disinformation, strengthening public resilience and information literacy, and sought ideas for joint action.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

During the event, the media was described as a weapon and a means of resistance, with particular emphasis on its role as a filter against disinformation.\u00a0Representatives of various media outlets\u00a0participating\u00a0in the event stressed that to successfully combat disinformation through the media, greater financial support for the media sector is needed.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“As media business models collapse, it is difficult for the media to survive on their own funds alone, and without support, the fourth estate will simply not survive. And if it does survive, it will be different,”\u00a0emphasised\u00a0Ruslanas\u00a0Ir\u017eikevi\u010dius, director of the Media Support Fund. In his speech, he also stressed that media support should not be\u00a0politicised\u00a0and that the Fund has all the necessary safeguards against political influence.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rasa\u00a0Navickien\u0117, a member of the Fund’s board and head of the National Association of Regional and Local Newspaper Publishers, who\u00a0participated\u00a0in the event,\u00a0emphasised\u00a0that local government support for regional media is minimal, which is why the Fund’s\u00a0programme\u00a0for regional media is vitally important.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It should be noted that the Fund provides media funding under five\u00a0programmes: cultural media and cultural periodicals, regional media, news, investigative and educational journalism, media in national minority languages, Lithuanian diaspora media, and a special\u00a0programme\u00a0for 2025\u20132027 to compensate for lost revenue related to restrictions on gambling advertising in the media. Each of these\u00a0programmes\u00a0covers key areas in the fight against disinformation.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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On 29 September,\u00a0Ruslanas\u00a0Ir\u017eikevi\u010dius, Director of the Media Support Fund,\u00a0participated\u00a0in an international forum held at the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania entitled “Information Warfare: How Do We Fight Back? Experiences of Poland,\u00a0Finland\u00a0and Lithuania”.\u00a0\u00a0 During the forum, experts, policymakers, journalists, representatives of the academic community and non-governmental\u00a0organisations\u00a0discussed current challenges in information security, shared their experiences and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medijufondas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medijufondas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medijufondas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medijufondas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medijufondas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.medijufondas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/www.medijufondas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medijufondas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medijufondas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medijufondas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medijufondas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}