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Report Launch -Social Media and the Information War in the Balkans

  • Frontline Club London (map)

To mark the launch of its second report, Social Media and the Information War in the Balkans, the Balkan Free Media Initiative (BFMI) hosted a discussion on how the spread of disinformation on social media has helped consolidate the power of authoritarian leaders in Serbia and the semi-autonomous region of Republika Srpska, contributing to the destabilisation of the region 

Speakers: 

  • Edward Lucas, Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and former Senior Editor at The Economist 

  • Peter Horrocks, BFMI International Advisory Board Member and Former Director of BBC World Service  

  •  Milena Popović, Editor-in-Chief of Istinomer (Serbian fact-checking organisation) 

  •  Antoinette Nikolova, Director BFMI (moderator) 

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