Journalistic sources on the Israel/Hamas conflict in the Croatian media
The aim was to identify the journalistic sources used by the Croatian mainstream media during the first three days of the conflict
between Israel and Hamas to determine the presence of journalistic sources previously identified as purveyors of disinformation.
Key findings:
• During the first three days of the conflict, the analyzed media used 167 different journalistic sources (N=167), including the news
agencies HINA (N=94), Agence France-Presse (AFP)(N=59), European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) (N=58), Profi media (N=42)
and Reuters (N=7), international media such as BBC (N=25), CNN (N=15) and Al Jazeera (N=7), Croatian media such as danas.hr
(N=15) and HRT(N=7), and official Israeli sources (N=9).
• The online sources used were mainly from X (Twitter) (N=65) and other online media (N=47), less often from Instagram (N=5),
Facebook (N=4) or Youtube (N=4).
• In rare cases, the analyzed media referred to journalistic sources described as purveyors of disinformation (N=17).
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This report is part of the research activities conducted under the “Adria Digital Media Observatory” project, financed by the Digital Europe Program. The aim was to identify local (Croatian) sources of disinformation (websites, blogs, social media groups, media outlets, opinion makers, and well-known conspiracy theorists) related to climate disinformation and to explore the reach and size of audiences of identified local disinformation sources. [+]
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This analysis aimed to identify key disinformation and manipulative narratives related to the war in Ukraine spreading in
Southeast Europe, using qualitative and quantitative content analysis of the fact-checked information.
Authors:
Dr. Marijana Grbeša, Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb
Dr. Milica Vučković, Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb
Contributors:
Laura Majer, mag. ing.
prof. dr. sc. Jan Šnajder
Matej Gjurković, dipl. ing.
David Dukić, mag. ing. [+]
