Report March 2025
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Faktograf – Association for the Informed Public is a non-profit media organisation in Croatia that publishes Faktograf.hr - online media outlet specialised in fact-checking and, since March 2024, Klimatski.hr - a new media outlet focused on climate issues.
Faktograf is a verified member of the European Fact-Checking Standards Network and the International Fact-Checking Network, as well as the founding member of SEE Check - the network of 6 fact-checkers in South East Europe.
During 2024 Faktograf became the first media publisher in Croatia to be awarded the certificate from the Journalism Trust Initiative.
Faktograf.hr and Klimatski.hr are registered as electronic publications with the Agency for Electronic Media in Croatia.
Faktograf is interested in public policies relevant for misinformation and disinformation, transparency and access to data and knowledge, good governance and democracy, as well as an enabling environment for viable journalism in the public interest, and as such is registered in the Transparency Register under ID 521295644592-54.
Faktograf is a signatory of the Code of Practice on Disinformation since June 15, 2022.
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During 2024 Croatia organised three elections: for the European and the Croatian Parliament, as well as for the Croatian President, with informal campaigning for local elections in May 2025.
The contents, actors and channels of communications were saturated with political pre-election content, but lacking trustworthy information and abundant with misinformation and disinformation. As expected, this correlated with the growth of online harassment against journalists and fact-checkers.
Faktograf focused its activities on providing trustworthy information and debunking misinformation and disinformation to citizens in Croatia. Additionally, Faktograf engaged in promoting digital media literacy and protecting its journalists from harassment. Faktograf strengthened its cooperation with fact-checkers in the country, region, EU and globally, and continued participation in the Code of Practice Taskforce.