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The meeting, organised within\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/seenpm.org\/about-resilience\/\">the EU-funded \u2018Resilience\u2019 project<\/a>, provided a platform for media professionals to exchange experiences on sustaining media operations that promote high-quality journalism. Constructive journalism, cross-border collaboration, countering the spread of online disinformation, and hate speech were among the topics discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stefan Janji\u0107, the editor-in-chief at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fakenews.rs\/\">Fake News Traga\u010d<\/a>\u00a0from Serbia explained that the process of countering disinformation in his country usually required countering hate speech as well. \u201cBased on our archive, 42% of false content contains some kind of hate speech or toxic narrative. Most often this is about neighbouring nations \u2013 the absolute champions are Albanians, then Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina \u2013 and we also have migrants and the LGBT+ population,\u201d explained Janji\u0107. During the Editors\u2019 Forum participants watched three documentaries about the role of the media in shaping our reality:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kpR1EVBfcVY&amp;t=9s\">Patka<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.collectivemovie.com\/\"><em>Collective<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and <em>Junk Folder<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The regional programme \u2018Resilience: Civil society action to reaffirm media freedom and counter disinformation and hateful propaganda in the Western Balkans and Turkey\u2019 is implemented with the support of the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editors and representatives of media civil society organisations (CSOs) from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey met in Njivice, Montenegro on 13-16 October to discuss the role of editors in restoring media trust. 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