700 False News Stories In Serbian Tabloids In 2018

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700 False News Stories In Serbian Tabloids In 2018
18 January 2019 | News and analysis, Top Story


The headline of the false story says “CIA Analysis: Putin Defends Kosovo as if it were Russian”. Article was published in Informer in June 2018.

According to Serbian fact-checking portal Raskrikavanje, more than 700 false or unverified news stories were published on the front pages of three Serbian tabloids (Informer, Alo and Srpski Telegraf) in 2018.

These false or unfounded news articles were mainly pushing narratives on:

    President Putin’s strong support to Serbia

As in the past years, the most popular political figure to be pictured on the front pages of the Tabloid Informer, just after the Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, is Russian President Vladimir Putin. Dominating the cover pages more than 60 times in 2018, Putin benefits from an exclusively positive coverage. Out of 223 cover pages, the tabloid Srspki Telegraf had 230 false news stories or news without any source quoted and one fifth of these news were devoted to Vladimir Putin and his messages of support to Serbia, Kosovo and President Vučić.

Read more at: https://euvsdisinfo.eu/700-false-news-stories-in-serbian-tabloids-in-2018/