The Rules of Procedure of the Croatian Parliament stipulate that laws are adopted in a fast-tracking procedure only exceptionally. In reality, it's anything but that.
The research is anonymous, and the methodology is insufficiently explained. It does not include information about the number of observed accounts and posts used for the network analysis on the X platform, and the analysis of Facebook comments does not specify the number of fake profiles identified, stating only that there were “many.”
With such statements, directly referencing the bodies that co-finance civil society in Croatia, including Gong, the Prime Minister sends a message that he can influence the allocation of public funds to NGOs.
Elections have moved to the digital sphere a long time ago, yet there is a lack of sufficient monitoring of online political campaings from competent authorities.
Gong calls on the State Electoral Commission (DIP), HAKOM, and Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to further investigate which political actors were behind the defamatory campaign on the Ne Možemo accounts on TikTok and Instagram. The goal is to prevent further negative influence on the outcome of the presidential elections.
In countries where there is a lack of legal framework related to the formal implementation of Civic Education into the school system, a significant role is played by non-formal education. In Croatia, this responsibility is largely carried out by civil society organisations, as a new Gong research on non-formal civic education programs is showing.
