The Digital Content Observatory has expressed grave concern over a growing wave of digital campaigns aimed at national sovereign institutions—particularly the security establishment—through social media and dubious media outlets. These campaigns feature inciting rhetoric including insults, defamation, doubt-casting, and public death threats.
As an independent civilian monitoring body, the Observatory highlights that despite such attacks, the national security institution continues to operate professionally within legal and constitutional frameworks, avoiding political posturing. However, the lack of clear official media responses leaves room for misinterpretation, eroding public trust amid an ongoing information war influencing public opinion.
The Observatory warns against misuse of slogans like “freedom of expression” and “fighting corruption” as covers for defamation and blackmail, threatening digital stability and moral security. It condemns political and institutional silence, viewing it as complicity or abdication of constitutional duties to protect national institutions.
In response, the Observatory calls on media, elected bodies, political entities, and civil society to explicitly reject these campaigns and defend institutional reputations. It demands restructuring public media to meet digital challenges and urges strengthened institutional communication through proactive, transparent engagement to rebuild societal trust.
The Observatory stresses that freedom of expression must not be a shield for incitement or defamation and offers its digital and legal expertise to assist national institutions in crafting strategic defenses to safeguard the national digital space.
