Serbia
TOURISM KNOWS NEITHER ETHNICITY NOR POLITICS
The summer tourist season is long awaited by everyone, especially after these two challenging years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many expect to explore new places as well as to spend quiet holidays. One of the attractive tourist destinations for the summer holidays is Albania. Tourists from different countries, including Serbia, choose to spend their holidays …
BALKAN TROLL OF THE MONTH: T7 TV Channel
The Balkan Troll of the Month is an individual, a group of individuals or a media outlet that spreads hate on the internet based on gender, ethnicity, religion, or other diversity categories. The Balkan Troll is selected based on hate speech incidents identified across the Western Balkans region. Our July Troll of the Month is …
HATE SPEECH IN THE WESTERN BALKANS: Monthly Monitoring Highlights
Throughout the month of June, the RDN monitoring team has detected a range of hateful narratives and discourse. As June was Pride Month, homophobia continued to be present within traditional and social media alongside a large range of hate speech including sexist narratives and ethnic discrimination across all six Western Balkan countries. Ethnic Discrimination between …
BALKAN TROLL OF THE MONTH: TV Happy
The Balkan Troll of the Month is an individual, a group of individuals or a media outlet that spreads hate on the internet based on gender, ethnicity, religion, or other diversity categories. The Balkan Troll is selected based on hate speech incidents identified across the Western Balkans region. Our June Troll of the Month was …
HOMOPHOBIA IN THE WESTERN BALKANS: Monthly Monitoring Highlight
Throughout May, the RDN monitoring team has detected a range of hateful narratives. Due to June being the month that several events take place globally to recognise the impact of the LGBTQ+ community we will have a country spotlight that focuses on homophobia. During our monitoring activities we have also encountered incidents relating to hate …
BALKAN TROLL OF THE MONTH: Fax.al news
The Balkan Troll of the Month is an individual, a group of individuals or a media outlet that spreads hate on the internet based on gender, ethnicity, religion, or other diversity categories. The Balkan Troll is selected based on hate speech incidents identified across the Western Balkans region. Our May Troll is Fax.al news which …
“HATE SLAVS” – HATE SPEECH IN THE BALKANS
Hate speech is commonplace in public discourse in the Balkans Offensive language, insinuations, labelling, presenting false information about people in public discourse with no holds barred, whether it is the media or the assembly i.e., in public debates, or in messages on social media and other public platforms, has become more the norm than an …
HATE SPEECH IN THE WESTERN BALKANS: Monthly Monitoring Highlights
Throughout April, RDN monitoring team has detected diverse type of hateful narratives. This month we will have a country spotlight including five Western Balkans countries. Roma in North Macedonia: Hate speech from high school teacher on International Roma Day A teacher at the economic high school in Tetovo made offensive comments on her Facebook account …
BALKAN TROLL OF THE MONTH: Tahir Batatini, Kosovo Football Coach
The Balkan Troll of the Month is an individual, a group of individuals or a media outlet that spreads hate on the internet based on gender, ethnicity, religion, or other diversity categories. The Balkan Troll is selected based on hate speech incidents identified across the Western Balkans region. Our April Troll is Kosovo football coach …