"Public service media (PSM) are legitimate and needed keepers of democratic order, and should play a crucial role in combating misinformation and propaganda," believes Davor Marko, non-resident CMDS fellow during a panel discussion in Vilnius, Lithuania, organized by the Eastern European Studies Centre in Vilnius and the MEMO98 in Slovakia, who conducted an intensive monitoring of PSM performance in ten Central and Eastern European countries to detect trends related to fake news. In order to perform this role, PSM need to be depoliticized, independent, considered as reliable source of information and to catch up with ongoing trends affected by technological development and digitalization.
