Bosnia and Herzegovina
BALKAN TROLL OF THE MONTH: Bosnian antimigrant.ba website
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 February Troll is the Bosnian website …
DOES ONLINE HATE END WITH THE END OF PARLER?
“The lie outlasts the liar,” writes the historian Timothy Snyder. Donald Trump’s deployment of social media to erase any “distinction between what feels true and what actually is true” will go down in history as his most dangerous legacy. The complicity of social media companies that enabled Donald Trump’s social media accounts is equally dangerous. Only after …
Porous anti-instigation laws enable hate speech in Bosnia and Herzegovina
“People who are or have been married to people of a different ethnicity are not real Serbs and as such they cannot represent the people of Serbia,” recently said Milorad Dodik, member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the leader of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats. The statement referred to a …