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Truth and lies in a world in which they’re difficult to distinguish

14.07.23

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has caused numerous debates, but one thing is certain – it is a powerful tool that has a huge potential to transform...

Women have less and less access to the media in Serbia

28.06.23

The significantly higher representation of men as a source of information and as interviewees compared to women is a continuous media practice in Serbia, which has been observed in all conducted analyses and media monitoring activities since 1996 until the latest one...

The attitude of the citizens of Serbia towards the EU in the jaws of anti-Western sentiment

03.05.23

If a referendum on Serbia's entry into the European Union were held today, 43 percent of citizens would answer "yes,” 33 percent would be against it, while one in ten does not know what to answer. Fourteen years earlier, support for Serbia's membership in the EU...

South Caucasus Social Media Users – An Information Diet of the Youth

22.02.23

An appetite for information, self-censorship, and avoidance of participation in the public debates are shared habits of the young social media users in the South...

Sensational headlines breed hate speech

22.11.22

Regardless of whether they post from their personal or fake profiles on social media, Macedonians, it seems, are very "eloquent" when it comes to spreading hate...

The fall of Slovak pro-Kremlin disinformation media

02.09.22

The blocking of Slovak disinformation websites by the National Security Authority was an unprecedented step against pro-Russian websites spreading disinformation, conspiracies, propaganda, and toxic narratives. Unfortunately, it was also criticized for alleged...

The trivialization of hate speech in Macedonia

12.08.22

The non-sanctioning of this type of speech leads to repetition, dissemination and abuse of these anomalies as a kind of "normalized" manner of political struggle against individuals and groups with different...

Hate speech doesn’t stop after Pride month

20.07.22

All this brings us to the question: can LGBT people feel safe and protected by the state authorities in...

The War in Ukraine, Freedom of Expression and Hate Speech

09.06.22

From now on, there may be talk of the disappearance of freedom of speech, but hate speech never...

The horror of propaganda or when the dead rise

Горан Ризаов

18.04.22

Misinformation about the Russian military invasion of Ukraine has led to such divisions of the people in Macedonia, especially those who are getting information mainly from the social media, that there is actually an online debate about whether there really is a war...

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