The president of the EFE Agency, Miguel Ángel Oliver, met this Tuesday in an extraordinary manner to the Board of Directors. They have done so, as reported by the Agency itself in its X profile to analyze the two “serious mistakes” they have made in less than a week.
The message is accompanied by a letter from Oliver, in which he has indicated that at this meeting he will give “all the pertinent explanations”, while at the same time the measures to be taken will be addressed “to prevent failures like these from being repeated.”
Oliver refers in the note to a fake helicopter accident in the capital and the fake death of Fernando Aramburu. The first of them It happened this past Thursday.. That day, they released a last hour on their networks saying that this plane had crashed into the Crystal Tower in Madrid. Information that they later rectified and for which they apologized. «It does not correspond to any information from the Agency. The accident referred to in that text has not occurred,” they justified in X.
That error has been followed by another this same Tuesday, when They have released the news of the false death by the writer Fernando Aramburu. “The EFE Agency is a giant of national and international information, a public news company backed by its credibility, achieved thanks to decades of public service, professionalism and honesty,” says Oliver’s letter.
«However, today we made a new mistake. This afternoon our news lines distributed the false news of the death of the writer and professor Fernando Aramburu,” continues the president, who highlighted in the note distributed that the news “has been rectified and denied by the Agency just a few minutes after being published.” .
Oliver He has apologized to Aramburu himself, both in the public letter and “by telephone”, as well as to his family, friends and publisher. “A misleading account on social networks has triggered an unforgivable error by EFE due to lack of verification.”
The president of EFE has asked Apologies also to the media, companies and other organizations who receive their services. At the same time, he recalled last Thursday’s ruling and launched: “Today, as on that occasion [en referencia al jueves]the veracity and rigor of EFE have been greatly damaged by our own failures.
“The two mistakes we have made have profound effects and are devastating for those who trust us and for our team,” said Oliver, who He also referred to the current contextwith a “very tough battle between truthful information and misinformation, between the servants of the accurate account of the facts and the propagators of hoaxes and lies.”
Miguel Ángel Oliver concluded his letter by recalling the duty entrusted to the Agency to “continue offering the best public service” and to “contribute”, together with his team, “to the cleanliness and credibility of the information ecosystem, essential for democracy.” .
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