Faktograf

Report March 2026

Submitted
Faktograf – Association for the Informed Public is a non-profit media organisation in Croatia that publishes two online media outlets that are registered as electronic publications with the Agency for Electronic Media in Croatia: Faktograf.hr specialised in fact-checking and Klimatski.hr focused on climate issues. Faktograf is the first media publisher in Croatia to be awarded the certificate from the Journalism Trust Initiative.

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. 

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.  

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The beginning of 2025 in Croatia was marked by elections 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.


Commitment 37
Signatories commit to participate in the permanent Task-force. The Task-force includes the Signatories of the Code and representatives from EDMO and ERGA. It is chaired by the European Commission, and includes representatives of the European External Action Service (EEAS). The Task-force can also invite relevant experts as observers to support its work. Decisions of the Task-force are made by consensus.
We signed up to the following measures of this commitment
Measure 37.1 Measure 37.2 Measure 37.3 Measure 37.4 Measure 37.5 Measure 37.6
In line with this commitment, did you deploy new implementation measures (e.g. changes to your terms of service, new tools, new policies, etc)?
If yes, list these implementation measures here
Do you plan to put further implementation measures in place in the next 6 months to substantially improve the maturity of the implementation of this commitment?
If yes, which further implementation measures do you plan to put in place in the next 6 months?
Measure 37.6
Signatories agree to notify the rest of the Task-force when a Commitment or Measure would benefit from changes over time as their practices and approaches evolve, in view of technological, societal, market, and legislative developments. Having discussed the changes required, the Relevant Signatories will update their subscription document accordingly and report on the changes in their next report.
QRE 37.6.1
Signatories will describe how they engage in the work of the Task-force in the reporting period, including the sub-groups they engaged with.
Faktograf participated in the Task Force’s online plenary meeting and online meetings of four subgroups: Monitoring and Reporting, Crisis Response, Empowerment of Fact-checkers and Generative AI, as well as the Elections Working Group.