5 September 2019 Facebook appears to be the almost exclusive source of traffic for Hungarian misinformation websites, which fall on the spectrum from purely ideological sites to simple money-making machines. Their Facebook pages are stable, directing users to their ever-changing URLs. In early June 2019, Hungarian website Tv2-friss.com published a series of articles about the…
28 August 2019 The Slovak misinformation industry is growing fast, buoyed by ads and e-commerce, but many people support them directly, too, through donations or tax designations. Before the Slovak presidential elections last March, the website Zem a Vek published an edited picture featuring Zuzana Čaputová, later elected the country’s president, with a hooked nose…
The fake news phenomenon hasn’t spared the Balkans. In Bosnia & Herzegovina, it fuels a lucrative industry. 21 August 2019 Many people have a somewhat morbid habit to read about death and dead people, which explains why obituaries or crime articles are popular. When killing is involved, these stories are even more gripping, getting more…