A random click on an article about how neo-Marxists hate Christianity on an ultra-nationalist, xenophobic Romanian media outlet immediately displays a banner with news on the fight against the traditional family waged by George Soros, a financier and philanthropist who became the hate figure for the far-right; as well as on the dangers of chlorine-treated…
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 and bigger lips, clearly an attempt to make her look more Jewish, as stereotypes go. The picture was taken from the DennikN, a Slovak news portal, and…
We reviewed over 100 misinformation websites to understand their business model In early June 2019, Hungarian website Tv2-friss.com published a series of articles about the sinking of a sightseeing boat on the Danube that killed 28 people just days before. The portal cited the local businessman Lőrinc Mészáros as saying that Hungary’s prime minister Viktor…
The fake news phenomenon hasn’t spared the Balkans. In Bosnia & Herzegovina, it fuels a lucrative industry. 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 eyeballs. Originalno.org, a website…