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According to the press release, the purpose of the people who created the website is to undermine the identity of the organizations involved in the STOP FALS campaign – the Association of Independent Press, the Independent Journalism Center and the Association of Independent TV Journalists of Moldova – and to give credibility to the fake news and distorted information that the website publishes.
Media-azi.md telephoned the Public Relations Service of the National Investigations Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but they could not comment on this case. We asked if the people who created the clone website were or can be identified and what sanctions shall be applied in this situation, and Diana Sochirca, the head of the Public Relations Service, asked us to submit a written application to the Center for Combating Cybercrimes, and it will be answered soon.
Previously, Ana Bradu, administrator of the MoldData State Enterprise, explained in a material published by Media-azi.md that if the owner of a domain name believes that his rights have been violated by a third person, he can apply to the organization that manages that domain name (e.g. .com, .net, .eu, .ro, .ru, etc.) or may appeal to the Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy by addressing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Various media outlets have lately been notifying about the emergence of clone websites. Early this year, the editorial office of the newspaper Ziarul de Garda announced that it had detected a clone website, ziaruldegarda.com, and asked law enforcement authorities to investigate this image and information theft. According to Victor Mosneag, deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper, law enforcement authorities have been so far unable to identify the persons who created the website.
The list of such clone websites includes Jurnalul.md, which looks like Jurnal.md, Ziarul Naţiunii, which copies Ziarul Naţional, and others.
