Category: elections

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.

1. September 2025.

Political ads on social networks remain problematic, as election commissions and platforms fail to ensure adequate oversight

Back in February, Gong warned that the non-transparent labeling of political ads makes it impossible to track actual campaign spending

Gong Urges Constitutional Court Review of Controversial Zadar Ballot Amid Concerns for Future Vote Integrity

Gong has submitted a proposal to the Constitutional Court to review and amend the decision by which a ballot in Zadar — on which a list was properly marked but an illegible word was added at the bottom — was declared invalid.

15. April 2025.

Gong Urges Constitutional Court to Safeguard Legal Protections for All Voters in the 'Circled' Case

An individual voter does not have the right to file a complaint independently, regardless of the severity of the violation of their voting rights.

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.

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