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Category: digital democracy

23. October 2025.

Gong’s Recommendations: How to Protect Civil Society from Attacks and Disinformation Campaigns

Gong’s set of recommendations, intended to encourage dialogue between civil society organisations and relevant institutions, is open to further additions.

10. March 2025.

Gong calls for more transparency around content removal under the Digital Services Act

Ahead of the final draft of the Act on the Implementation of the Digital Services Act, Gong has sent MPs and committee members a proposal of amendments aimed at improving the implementation of the Act in Croatia

Elections and data: Croatia needs to regulate the Voter Registry and change the boundaries of electoral districts

In order for elections to be fair and for citizens to maintain trust in the electoral process, it is crucial to ensure a credible Voter Register and to promptly align the electoral legislation

23. January 2025.

Presidential Elections on Social Media: Defamation, Bots, and Questionable Research

The presidential elections confirmed the importance of social media in election campaigns, and the ways in which they can be used for election manipulation, by pushing a defamation campaign, using fake profiles, and publishing questionable research ahead of election silence.

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.”

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.

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.

21. February 2024.

The new guise of HDZ's bots: They changed names and pictures, but still deceive citizens

After Gong exposed that the ruling party is using a multitude of bots on its official Facebook page to artificially support the insults against the opposition and protesters, HDZ did not delete the bots, but instead changed their names and profile pictures to continue their activities in a new disguise.

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