Use social networks to spread official information and fight against false and hostile views.

On the morning of October 6, the Vietnam Journalists Association organized a conference on "The press and the work of protecting the Party's ideological foundation in the context of digital transformation" for Journalists Associations of provinces and cities in the Central Highlands - Central region.

Comrades: Tran Trong Dung - Vice President of Vietnam Journalists Association; Ngo Duc Kien - Vice President of Nghe An Journalists Association, Party Secretary, Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper; Tran Thai Son - Director of Vietnam Journalists Association Electronic Information Portal co-chaired the conference.

Attending the conference were comrades: Nguyen Duc Loi - Permanent Vice President of Vietnam Journalists Association; Dang Thi Phuong Thao - Deputy Director of the Department of Press and Publishing, Ministry of Information and Communications; and delegates from provinces and cities in the Central and Central Highlands regions.

Speaking at the conference, comrade Tran Trong Dung - Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association said: In recent years, implementing the Party's strong direction, the press has created a vibrant and widespread atmosphere and motivated the whole society to participate in the country's important political tasks, including protecting the Party's ideological foundation and fighting against erroneous and hostile viewpoints.

Practice shows that while the central press, with its strength in theoretical foundation, actively provides in-depth information on political research content; analyzes and affirms the correctness of Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh's thought, the local press, with its regional cultural characteristics, has its own methods and approaches in fighting and preventing hostile and destructive elements, especially on issues of ethnicity, religion, democracy and human rights.

During the discussion session, representatives of a number of localities and press agencies analyzed the role of the press in protecting the Party's ideological foundation; and shared some practical experiences on the following issues: Building columns and organizing propaganda to protect the Party's ideological foundation; organizing articles on "anti-peaceful evolution"; methods to write good articles that attract readers; information mechanisms, protecting those who refute hostile and erroneous viewpoints on cyberspace, etc.

At the conference, comrade Ngo Duc Kien - Vice President of Nghe An Journalists Association, Party Secretary, Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper shared practical experience in the process of building the column "Protecting the Party's ideological foundation" on Nghe An Electronic Newspaper.

In recent times, Nghe An Newspaper has proactively developed many articles to disseminate the Party's ideology, policies and guiding viewpoints, identify the plots and tricks of hostile forces; thereby, fight against the "peaceful evolution" plot and the wrong viewpoints of political opportunists.

In addition, the conference also heard many opinions exchanged about the difficulties and challenges facing journalists in protecting the Party's ideological foundation in the context of digital transformation.

Speaking at the conference, comrade Nguyen Duc Loi - Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association noted that press agencies need to post more content on protecting the Party's ideological foundation on social networks, contributing to spreading official information on digital platforms; thereby, pushing back bad and toxic information.

In addition, comrade Nguyen Duc Loi also said that the Journalists Association and press agencies need to pay attention to the phenomenon of "two-faced journalists" - people who, despite having many good articles on mainstream newspapers, still have deviant statements on social networks.

Concluding the conference, comrade Tran Trong Dung - Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association highly appreciated the delegates' heartfelt recommendations, thereby seeing the mission of journalists in protecting the Party's ideological foundation.

He acknowledged: With a high sense of responsibility towards members, the Association at all levels has seriously discussed and analyzed difficulties and problems in practical struggles, recognized shortcomings, and from there proposed many practical solutions to solve practical problems.