ArmInfo. The so-called fight with fakes should be very careful and deliberate. Director of the National Security Service of Armenia (NSS), Artur Vanetsyan, told journalists on April 4 after a government meeting referring to the instructions of the RA Prime Minister to deal with fakes.
"If the publication, whether it is made a fake or an ordinary person, has no corpus delicti, the law enforcement agencies will have no reason to take any action. If so, in this case, the National Security Service and other law enforcement agencies must respond and take appropriate measures. If it does, then the National Security Service and the rest of the law enforcement agencies are obliged to respond and take appropriate measures to prevent and detect a crime, "he said. When asked what would be understood by the term" manipulation ", Vaniecian said that these are statements , publication or distributed themes in social networks by anonymous or unknown users in order to form such a mood, which can lead to certain consequences. "I don't want to include a word game now, but I assure you about this process will be carried out very carefully, cautiously, and in any case not the freedom of speech, "will be broken - he said.
At the same time, the director of the National Security Service asked for some time to study the issue in order to understand what methods this struggle would take. "Not to harm the freedom of speech is the most important principle that we will adhere to," Arthur Vanetsyan assured.
To recall at today's meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that "if some criminal circles spend millions in social networks and the media on manipulating public opinion, then this is a matter of national security".