Representatives of the Azerbaijani presidential administration and the Media Development Agency visited the Disinformation Combat Center of the Public Relations Department of the Presidency of Türkiye on Monday to discuss efforts to counter disinformation.

Since the beginning of this year, bloggers living abroad — Mehman and Emin Huseynov, as well as Gabil Mammadov — have been spreading defamatory information about Alyona Aliyeva across various online platforms. Moreover, Mehman Huseynov displayed a few seconds of an image fragment during one of his live broadcasts.

The 7th Meeting of Ministers and Senior Officials in charge of Media and Information of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) took place in Baku.

Azerbaijan has established a commission to ensure the security of critical information infrastructure, read a joint statement by the country’s State Security Service and Special Communication and Information Security State Service.

Azerbaijan is poised to enhance its response to cyber threats through the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)-based technologies, Ilgar Musayev, head of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Security, said on Tuesday.