Visualization – Regional openness of institutions in the Western Balkans

Metamorphosis Foundation for Internet and Society, in collaboration with partners from the regional network of NGOs “ACTION SEE”, has prepared the latest visualization showing the level of openness of government institutions in the Western Balkans.

This visualization presents some of the key findings from the survey on openness in the region and in North Macedonia. In recent years, the Index of Openness, developed under the “ACTION SEE” project, has continuously monitored the institutions of the judiciary, the executive power, local self-governments, and parliaments.

Towards a Feasible Implementation of the Digital Services Act in the Western Balkans

The Study elaborates on the readiness of Western Balkan countries for the harmonization of their national regulations with the EU’s Digital Services Act. This Act represents the most ambitious regulation, both at the European Union and the global level that aims to protect the fundamental rights of users of digital services. It does so by […]

Climate Conspiracies in the Western Balkans: Widely Imported and Persistently Repeated

The topic of climate is fertile soil for spreading disinformation. Denying the existence of global warming, conspiracy theories claiming the climate change is a tool in the hands of secret societies or powerful individuals in order to control or harm the populations, allegations that human influence on the climate is not as big as scientists […]

DISINFORMATION TRENDS AND NARRATIVES IN THE WESTERN BALKAN REGION MEDIA MONITORING REPORT FOR THE PERIOD OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2023

During the last quarter of 2023, various external actors continued to target the societies of Western Balkans with disinformation and related manipulation tactics, through a range of influence operations by various authoritarian forces, to hybrid warfare by Russia. This monitoring report presents an overview of key disinformation trends affecting Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, […]