What is an average citizen of Serbia really exposed to during one day? Do the headlines make him dizzy? All the announced wars and frequent crises and ‘crises’? What are his earworms? Can he escape the role assigned to him, or is the blue pill an inevitability actually?
“Vučić crushed by both the East and the West,” “EuroPride is a hybrid war against Serbia,” “Litany procession remotely controlled from Moscow,” “America pushing us into the LGBT war,” “EuroPride – a difficult test for Vučić and the country,” – these are some of the headlines used by national newspapers on their front pages to […]
If Vučić and the Progressives, who used to be Radicals, cleanse themselves of everything that has happened in the last ten years with a new name change, then it will be a completely new level of what is incredible, but possible. Because when they renounced the Radicals, the Progressives had to formally renounce Vojislav Šešelj, […]
Looking beyond the context of the war in Ukraine, Russia has now replaced the United States in the lead position in terms of the number of mentions in the Serbian media. Although open support for Russia has subsided somewhat since the beginning of the war, the most influential media still report more often in Russia’s […]
Somehow lost between West and East, democracy and authoritarianism, disturbing facts about the crimes committed in the recent Yugoslav wars and idealized picture of the self, Serbia gives a scary example of how slow and troubled transition can be, and how difficult it is to overcome the past. In the present day, the most powerful […]
The claim that the Croats hate us, and that one should never holiday on their coast, was avoidable only by getting your news from a single newspaper, or staying away from newspapers altogether, and by every means avoiding television channels with news shows. Some wondered what the intention of the tabloid editors could be, whether […]
According to the officials from Russia, China and some of the media outlets and social media users in Serbia, Ukraine hosts dozens of “American labs for biological weapons and destruction of Russians”. Conspiracy narratives mention that these labs precisely are the only Russian targets during the current invasion of Ukraine. None of these theories has […]
What were the findings of Istinomer since the beginning of the crisis? We detected dozens of manipulative posts and news on social media and wrote 26 articles about it – in our section of Facebook evaluations. The clear message, illustrative description, emotional tension, and traces of truth – a recipe for “successful” manipulation of the […]
Educational worker: “They wanted me to go to the SNS rally. No one threatened or ordered anything specific, they just asked you – can you do it or not. Personally, I would not suffer any consequences, but my wife would. No one threatens you directly, but they say – “Come on, you should do it”. […]
Oleksandr was counting his last days as the Ambassador on his duty in Belgrade, but the invasion kept him in Serbia. We talked about current events in Ukraine with him, but also how the media in our country are reporting on war, if the citizens of Serbia were receiving the real insight into what was […]
