Monitoring Reports
SHADOW MONITORING EXERCISE REPORT 2021
From February 15th – 28th a team of 3 monitors from the Media DiversityInstitute, as part of the Get The Trolls Out! project, monitored a select few social media platforms for religious hate speech, focusing on calls for violence. This report outlines the main findings in the report, including worrying hate speech trends spotted on social media platforms.
Omissions and Distortions in Hungarian Public Service Media Coverage of Migration
Our Hungarian partner, the Centre for Independent Journalism, analysed editorial practices at national broadcaster, MTVA’s 24-news channel M1. Through three case studies they concluded the national broadcaster MTVA consistently omits facts and distorts the truth in its coverage of migration issues in Western Europe.
A YEAR IN MEDIA MONITORING VOL. 3
Dr. Rupar analysed 275 incidents the GTTO team registered over the period between January 2020 and January 2021.
A Closer Look at Hungarian Sensationalist News Agency V4NA
Our Hungarian partner, the Centre for Independent Journalism, noticed that for many of the media cases they found through hate-speech monitoring, a news agency called V4NA (V4 News Agency) was cited as the main source of information. Together with Hungarian platform 444.hu, content from V4NA was analysed to understand more about what messages they were attempted to spread.
A YEAR IN MEDIA MONITORING VOL. 2
Dr. Rupar analysed 604 incidents the GTTO team registered over the period between January 2019 and January 2020.
A YEAR IN MEDIA MONITORING VOL. 1
We started monitoring the media for antireligious hate speech and inflammatory reporting in January 2018. In the first year of monitoring, we've registered 310 incidents. Dr Verica Rupar analysed the incidents, and wrote a report on them.
TOXIC NARRATIVES: MONITORING ALTERNATIVE-RIGHT ACTORS
This report about monitoring of alternative-right actors was published by Amadeu Antonio Stiftung. For this analysis, AAS selected 10 right-wing populist, far-right and conspiracy-ideology actors that are representative of larger phenomena, quantitatively classifying and qualitatively assessing their most far-reaching posts within the largest social network.
REPORTING ON MIGRATION AND MINORITIES
With the motto, ‘Ethical Journalism against Hate Speech’, the RESPECT WORDS project addresses the need to rethink how the media represents migration and ethnic and religious minorities.
On 12 October 2017, the project presented their guidelines for reporting on migrants and minorities in the European Parliament in Brussels.