Faktograf

Report March 2025

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Faktograf – Association for the Informed Public is a non-profit media organisation in Croatia that publishes Faktograf.hr - online media outlet specialised in fact-checking and, since March 2024, Klimatski.hr - a new media outlet focused on climate issues.

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. 

During 2024 Faktograf became the first media publisher in Croatia to be awarded the certificate from the Journalism Trust Initiative.

Faktograf.hr and Klimatski.hr are registered as electronic publications with the Agency for Electronic Media in Croatia. 

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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During 2024 Croatia organised three elections: for the European and the Croatian Parliament, as well as 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.

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Commitment 30
Relevant Signatories commit to establish a framework for transparent, structured, open, financially sustainable, and non-discriminatory cooperation between them and the EU fact-checking community regarding resources and support made available to fact-checkers.
We signed up to the following measures of this commitment
Measure 30.1 Measure 30.2 Measure 30.3 Measure 30.4
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 30.1
Relevant Signatories will set up agreements between them and independent fact-checking organisations (as defined in whereas (e)) to achieve fact-checking coverage in all Member States. These agreements should meet high ethical and professional standards and be based on transparent, open, consistent and non-discriminatory conditions and will ensure the independence of fact-checkers.
SLI 30.1.1
Relevant Signatories will report on Member States and languages covered by agreements with the fact-checking organisations, including the total number of agreements with fact-checking organisations, per language and, where relevant, per service.
In 2024 Faktograf continued to participate in Meta’s Third Party Fact-Checking programme (Croatia, Croatian language) and started to participate in TikTok’s Global Fact-checking Program. 
Country Nr of agreements with fact-checking organisations
Croatia 2