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Election campaign – fighting for the votes on Facebook
All around the world, social media have been actively used as the means of influence in the prominent events and political processes. However, Facebook is the most used when it comes to the election campaigns, thanks to its features...
From coronavirus as a global experiment to the endangered Serbs in Montenegro
The appearance of a publicist Danilo Tvrdisic on the National TV IN4S in the Srpski svijet (The Serbian World) TV show on July 19 was marked by the narratives on coronavirus, as the greatest global experiment in the history of mankind,...
Negation of Montenegro – the narrative that dominates
Negation of Montenegro – the narrative that dominates and by that could be heard in the IN4Smisija (IN4Smission) TV show of a newly founded the IN4S National television on July 14, was also rich with debatable statements. Besides the...
Dr. Gajic for the DFC Magazine: The virus is spreading as fast as disinformation
Doctors who express unverified and controversial attitudes during coronavirus pandemic contribute to the creation of the information chaos, said Ognjen Gajic for the DFC magazine, a specialist in intensive care medicine and lung...
Read the new DFC Magazine issue
In the new DFC Magazine read what Dr. Ognjen Gajic, a doctor at the famous Mayo Clinic said about disinformation being as harmful as the coronavirus; why Facebook groups are destroying America; whether the referendum in Russia made...
The overseas lobbying for the Serbian interests in MNE
In the context of the current events in Montenegro, the emergence of numerous organizations advocating for the Serbian interests and rights in Serbia and over the world is noticeable The Serbian- American Leadership Conference (SALC)...
More insults from the same address
Proclaiming corona free destination on June 2 and opening the borders for particular countries in the region and Europe incited the new attacks on Montenegro Even though Kosovo and the upcoming elections in Serbia were the occasion and...
Zonjo for the DFC Magazine: We love sucking on phallic candies of fake news
Montenegro is the least developed society in Europe when it comes to media and informatics literacy. Instead of searching for reliable information on relevant media, we wait for them to appear on social media, estimated Zoran Markovic...
The objectiveness of the IFIMES’ analyses in question
The Digital Forensic Center did a detailed analysis of the pieces of research of the International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan studies (IFIMES), due to discovered inconsistencies in claims, biased coverage of specific topics...
Montenegrin tourism under attack of the Serbian tabloids
Last days, the intensive anti-Montenegrin campaign on the Serbian portals aims at degrading the image of Montenegro as an attractive tourist destination. The Serbian and pro-Serbian media are not missing the opportunity to emphasize...
The DFC discovers: Montenegro under attack of the bots from Serbia
After a recent debunking of the bot network connected with the ruling party in Serbia which was promoting the Chinese aid in that country during coronavirus pandemic, the Digital Forensic Center discovered a new network of accounts...
Fake news about Joanikije’s trial being refused and bombs in Berane
Sputnik just published a piece of information, which was republished by many media in Montenegro and Serbia. The information claims that the judges refused to try Bishop Joanikije and that they gave a written statement about it. That...
FAKE NEWS ON AN INJURED BABY WAS CIRCULATING ON SOCIAL MEDIA
A photography of a wounded baby was circulating on social media last night. A description of the posts on social media stated that the injuries on the baby’s face were caused by the police officers in Niksic, which is the...
MISUSE OF THE CONTENT – HOW DID THE PROTESTS AGAINST JUDICIARY REFORMS IN POLAND TURNED INTO ANTI-VACCINATION PROTESTS?
A video with a description Eight days of protest in Poland against mandatory vaccination was posted on May 9 on a Facebook page Pravo na slobodu (Right to Freedom). The video displays tens of thousands of citizens gathered on the...
CONSPIRACY THEORIES FROM THE PARLIAMENT OF SERBIA
In her speech in the Parliament of the Republic of Serbia on April 29, 2020, Nada Kostic, MP, internist and professor on the Medical Faculty in Belgrade, presented numerous conspiracy theories on coronavirus, its emergence, situation...
NATO published the DFC’s research on Russian narratives in the Balkans
The project Russia’s Footprint in the Western Balkan Information Environment, published by NATO Stratcom Centre of Excellence, investigates Russia’s tools of influence in the Western Balkans (WB), with a focus on the media landscape....
Public opinion survey – Media literacy, coronavirus and the citizens of Montenegro
About the research In order to estimate the attitudes and opinions of the citizens of Montenegro when it comes to their critical view on media content available on a daily basis, the Digital Forensic Center conducted quantitative field...
A doctor for conspiracy theories
The Protiv Novog Svetskog Poretka (Against New World Order) Facebook page posted on April 22 a video from the Next News Network TV show with dr. Rashid Buttar. Within fifty minutes, dr. Buttar made many assertions on the novel...
New narrative: Church under attack of the regime
Measures introduced to prevent the spreading of coronavirus are in force in Montenegro just like in the rest of the world. Even though the citizens are obliged to comply with the measures in order to avoid possible consequences, the...
Everything that the Chinese ambassador hid
The Digital Forensic Center analyzed an interview of Liu Jinn, an Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China, published in the “Vijesti” daily newspaper on April 15. Since the coronavirus outbreak, China has been accused many...
Who is disturbed by bot analysis?
After the Digital Forensic Center had published the analysis on new network of bot accounts in Serbia, which was published by almost all local, but also regional and even Chinese, American and Central European media, the web sites of...
After the analysis on bots, DFC attacked by hackers
After the Digital Forensic Center had published the analysis on new bot network in Serbia, which was taken by all domestic, regional but also Chinese and American media, the web sites of DFC, Atlantic Council of Montenegro and To be...
A bot network arrived in Serbia along with coronavirus
Analyzing posts on Twitter for the period from March 9 to April 9, we discovered 30,000 tweets coming from accounts in Serbia with keywords Kina (China) and Srbija (Serbia) in their content. As much as 71.9 percent of the content was...
DFC Magazine #18
These days have seen numerous disinformation and conspiracy theories posted and shared on social media, doing unmeasurable harm to individuals and the community. In this short video, find out what the new DFC Magazine issue brings,...
Montenegro’s information environment through history
The following article is the first piece of a two-part series done by our team and published by the DFRLab. Read more about the developments that shaped #Montenegro as a country, media, and information environment as well as foreign...
Outright deception of the public
A coordinated campaign against Montenegro, which has been spreading negative and bizarre disinformation over the last 3 months, continues unabated Another narrative has emerged in the last few days: NATO requires from the President of...
STATE OF PLAY
The beginning of the 21st century marked the shift in definition of the power from conventional, military and hard power to its much more non-violent and non-conventional form, in a way that mass media, social media and information have become weapons of choice. Many countries, Western Balkans states included, face the same challenge of responding and resisting to the disinformation campaigns aimed against them.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to identify, explain and counter the problem of disinformation and fake news narratives through open source research; to promote truth and critical thinking; reduce problem of digital/media illiteracy through events, workshops and lectures that will raise awareness of this issue. We have the right to always question and search for the evidences!
UNDERSTANDING DISINFO
The problem of disinformation is broader than any individual country or actor spreading malign narratives. These campaigns are synchronized and systematic, so the response must be as well.That is why we, within Digital Forensic Center, established the foundations for the hub that will fight new media and digital disinformation through the multi-sector and multi-disciplinary approach and cooperation between NGOs, media and governments.