Ali Naderi made the remarks in his speech to the World Media Summit underway in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, IRNA reported on Tuesday.
Based on a jointly-conducted research from six continents and 46 markets, the University of Oxford and the London-established news agency of Reuters found out “low trust” and “weak audience engagement” in “an age of abundant digital and social media” in 2023, the IRNA chief said.
As Naderi announced, the main reason behind such low trust is that the audience feels that the media do not give a true and unbiased image of the various events.
People have access to the internet today and they can reach many sources to understand the realities of the occurrences, he underlined.
To clarify his remarks, the IRNA chief referred to the fake news released by the Zionist regime of Israel as an example of biased news.
He went on to say that the Zionist regime has no way but to release fake news to divert the public opinion from the realities.
The 5th World Media Summit is underway in Guangzhou, southern China, with the participation of directors of 197 international media since December 3.
The summit follows the theme of "Boosting Global Confidence, Promoting Media Development".
