Transparency in Public Administration, Crisis Communication and Disinformation
Transparency in Public Administration, Crisis Communication and Disinformation

Summary/Abstract: Transparency in public administration has overcome a long time ago the stage of principles, being materialized into a complex legislation. Nevertheless, the legal provisions in this field are not always followed and a situation of pandemic crisis may create, as it has already been proven, the pretext and the appropriate framework for ignoring or avoiding the regulations in this field. As long as transparency is affected, the official public communication also has to suffer, and an inadequate public communication, incorrect or unilateral, in a period of severe sanitary, economic, social crisis, generates mistrust, which may lead to panic and may ensure premises favourable to stimulating manipulation and disinformation. We are dealing with a phenomenon more and more dangerous, on the background of the development of technology and means of communications, and disinformation acts aggressively and may have consequences similar to a lethal (corona)virus.

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