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13. January 2025.

Croatia still in a state of emergency: Even in 2024, a third of laws passed in an emergency procedure

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.

10. January 2025.

Research on Milanović's bots has serious shortcomings

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.”

19. December 2024.

Is the Prime Minister signaling a willingness to penalise organisations that insists on free and fair elections?

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.

13. December 2024.

Gong in Prishtina: Better regulation of online political campaigns is necessary

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.

13. December 2024.

Gong urged the State Electoral Commission: Investigate who is behind the disinformation campaign against Ivana Kekin

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.

12. December 2024.

Gong Reports Anti-Možemo Defamatory Content to TikTok, the Electoral Commission, and HAKOM

Gong reported several TikTok posts to the platform, the State Electoral Commission (DIP), and HAKOM for spreading falsehoods about candidate Ivana Kekin and attempting to influence the elections.

21. November 2024.

Gong addressed the European Parliament: The General State Attorney should not decide on conflicts of jurisdiction between DORH and EPPO

Gong has addressed the European Parliament's Committee on Petitions, pointing out inconsistencies between Croatian legislation and the Regulation on the EPPO.

2. October 2024.

We have the right to know: Gong calls for public authorities to proactively open data to the public

Despite being guaranteed by the Constitution and elaborated in the Act on the Right to Access Information, many citizens are unaware of this right or do not know how to exercise it, and they often face difficulties in doing so.

Gong's analysis of parliamentary elections on TikTok: Plenković more likes than Pernar, Možemo the most followed party

The analysis showed that Prime Minister Andrej Plenković became one of the most popular politicians, even though he opened his account three weeks before the parliamentary elections, and that the most popular parties were Mozemo and HDZ.

Meta removes 150 HDZ fake profiles from Facebook and Instagram because of Gong

Meta removed a Croatian coordinated network consisting of 150 fake Facebook and Instagram profiles and pages, linked to the Croatian Democratic Union's (HDZ) Youth members, after Gong exposed and reported their daily support on HDZ's official Facebook page.

AI Act adopted: can the first law of this nature ensure the rights of EU citizens?

The Council is taking a major step towards fostering trust in new technologies, as well as ensuring their transparency and accountability to European citizens.

The Commission as a political advertisement: Von der Leyen and HDZ showed that the Commission's new rules do not make sense

While von der Leyen is not allowed to emphasize her current position in the campaign, the same is not true for HDZ which has nothing to prevent it from using the leading person of the European Commission for its campaign, thereby putting other parties in an unfair position. Gong has alerted the Commission and the European Ombudsman to this issue.

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