The VaticanNews portal (January 9, 2026) reports on an international media campaign titled “Facts In, Facts Out,” spearheaded by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), World Association of News Publishers, and International Federation of Periodical Publishers. The initiative demands AI companies ensure transparency in news content processing, proposing five principles: 1) content usage consent, 2) fair recognition of news value, 3) source attribution, 4) plurality in AI systems, and 5) corporate-media dialogue. EBU News Director Liz Corbin admits AI tools “systematically alter” news from trusted sources, while WAN-IFRA CEO Vincent Peyregne laments the erosion of public trust in media. This plea for “information truthfulness” emerges from the conciliar sect’s ongoing absorption into the globalist machinery.
Naturalist Presuppositions Deny Supernatural Order
The campaign’s foundational error lies in its exclusive focus on horizontal solutions to information disorder. By framing AI’s dangers solely through the lens of factual accuracy and democratic preservation, the conciliar collaborators tacitly endorse the regnum hominis (kingdom of man) condemned by Pope St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907). Not once does the text reference divine revelation as the ultimate criterion for truth verification – a deliberate omission exposing the modernist reduction of truth to empirical consensus.
When EBU’s Corbin states “the public rightly demands access to quality…journalism,” she perpetuates the conciliar sect’s heretical equivalence between natural truth and supernatural truth. This violates the Syllabus of Errors (1864) which condemned the notion that “human reason…is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood” (Proposition 3). The campaign’s fifth principle demanding “shared standards” through corporate-media dialogue constitutes theological rebellion against Quas Primas (1925), where Pius XI established that Christ’s reign extends over “individuals, families, and states,” who must “publicly venerate and obey the reigning Christ.”
Conciliar Betrayal of Catholic Journalistic Mission
Vatican Radio’s participation as EBU founding member reveals the depth of apostasy. The collaboration with secular news syndicates directly contravenes Pope Pius IX’s condemnation of religious indifferentism: “The Church cannot approve of…equating the Christian religion with other false religions” (Syllabus, Proposition 18). By joining WAN-IFRA’s plea for “plurality and diversity” in AI systems, the conciliar apparatus embraces the condemned error that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Syllabus, Proposition 18).
The campaign’s third principle demanding “accuracy, attribution, provenance” rings hollow when the conciliar sect itself has systematically falsified Catholic provenance since Vatican II. As the Holy Office decreed in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907): “The Church listening cooperates…with the Church teaching” (Proposition 6), meaning journalists must submit to Magisterial authority – not negotiate truth standards with tech oligarchs. The very notion of “fair recognition” of news value (principle 2) reduces sacred doctrine to intellectual property, denying its divine origin.
Omission of Divine Law as Supreme Algorithm
Nowhere does the campaign acknowledge Lex Aeterna as the ultimate safeguard against AI distortions – a silence proving the conciliar sect’s complete abandonment of Regnum Christi. The five principles constitute a naturalistic parody of the Decalogue, substituting “consent” for obedience, “attribution” for divine honor, and “dialogue” for conversion. This mirrors the modernist heresy condemned by St. Pius X: “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Lamentabili, Proposition 20).
When VaticanNews laments AI tools “distorted or decontextualized” content, it confesses its own guilt. For decades, conciliar media has decontextualized papal encyclicals, stripped sacraments of their propitiatory nature, and distorted the Church’s mission into social activism. Their sudden concern for “facts in, facts out” ignores the supreme Fact of the Incarnation, replaced by Bergoglian “encounter” and “accompaniment.” As Pius XI warned: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws…the foundations of authority were destroyed” (Quas Primas).
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International media call for transparency from AI companies (vaticannews.va)
Date: 09.01.2026