The board of directors of the Agency EFE held an extraordinary meeting this Tuesday, at the request of its president, Miguel Angel Oliverto address the two erroneous information published in recent days and strengthen its editorial and technological supervision processes.
Specifically, it concerns the dissemination last Thursday of a message on the official account of EFE in X about a helicopter accident in Madrid that did not take place, as well as the publication today of the false death of the writer Fernando Aramburu from an account that impersonated its publisher.
Both pieces of information, immediately canceled and rectified by this agency, have caused “the veracity and rigor of EFE They have been very damaged due to our own failures,” as Oliver stated in a letter spread on the EFE website and social media accounts.
In this letter, Oliver has apologized “to the media, institutions, organizations and companies who count on and trust our services.
“In the current context, in which a very tough battle between truthful information and misinformation, between the servers of the exact account of the facts and the propagators of hoaxes and lies, the two mistakes we have made have profound effects and are devastating for those who trust us and for our team”, indicated the president of EFE.
The board of directors has received explanations from both the president of EFE as well as the Information and Strategy departments on both publications and has addressed the need to strengthen the editorial and technological supervision to prevent these situations from happening again.
Prior to the board of directors, and also at the request of its president, EFE has held an extraordinary steering committee to analyze these errors and establish reinforcement measures to avoid its repetition.
“There was no bad intention”
For its part, the Editorial Board issued a statement this afternoon entitled “Contrast, identify and verify”in which he highlights that these practices are “one of the basic obligations of every reporter and editor.”
In this statement, the Editorial Board recalls that the editorial statute establishes that all EFE journalists “must act with diligence and professional judgment in the assigned functions, as well as maintaining quality in the information thread.
“The Editorial Team works at high speed and under pressure, but this should never be an obstacle to fulfilling the duty of verifying and guaranteeing the reliability of our notes. We are aware that there was no bad intention and that the errors are the result of the frenetic pace that affects the production of news, contaminated by the pressure of social networks,” the Council maintains.
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