Disinformation Analysis on the Western Balkans: Lack of Sources Indicates Potential Disinformation

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One key feature of disinforming news stories is that they are most often published without quoting any sources, alongside having a biased or subjective tone. In the Western Balkans, the largest number of news articles without sources has been seen in Serbia, while news pieces quoting ‘unnamed sources’ were most common in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. These are some of the findings of a one month regional monitoring project run by the Belgrade-based civic association CRTA.

SOURCE: EU vs Disinfo