Tag: digital democracy

12. January 2026.

The database of removed content from big tech platforms: Transparency and its illusion

Large online platforms in the EU publish statements of all their content moderation decisions in a single, unified database. In practice, however, its actual transparency remains largely insufficient.

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 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.

23. January 2023.

ADMO - a new regional center for the fight against disinformation

This weekend, Gong attended the founding meeting of ADMO in Dubrovnik.

13. September 2022.

Researching COVID-19 conspiracy theories: Who believes in them and how do they affect behavior

Research results show that people who believe in conspiracy theories are not inclined to getting vaccinated (again) in the future.

Věra Jourová’s address for Gong: The European Union is responding to the challenge of disinformation and digital rights violations

The Vice President of the European Commission highlighted the EU's fight against COVID-19 and Russian disinformation during Gong's international conference.

European perspectives: Fight against disinformation by improving standards in journalism and empowering citizens

The conference concluded that regulation disinformation is not enough; we need to empower media, media literacy and democratic political culture.

19. April 2022.

Gong and 35 EU organisations: Prevent the misuse of the crisis response mechanism

Gong, along with 36 European civil society organizations, voiced concern about the proposed articles 25a and 27a of the Digital Service Act.

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