Threats to media outlets and organizations, Klimatski portal, online, March and April 2024.

CJA •︎ 30/03/2024

Threats to media outlets and organizations, Klimatski portal, online, March and April 2024.

Translations: Zagreb 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    Zagreb
  • Who was attacked?
    Organization

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    Klimatski portal
  • Type of media platform
    Online Media
  • Source of information about the incident
    Klimatski portal

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    23.03.2024
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Known (suspected)
  • Attacked by
    Public person(s)
  • Means of incidents and attacks
    Posts or comments on social networks
    Through media outlets (broadcast, print, online)
  • Type of incident
    Threats against media outlets and organizations
  • Type of threat
    Aggressive, harassing or discriminatory statements

  • Action by the authorities

  • Type of violation
    Other

  • Action taken by the journalists' association

  • Was journalist's association informed by the journalists directly?
    No

Shortly after the Klimatski portal (Climate Portal) began operating (March 20, 2024), it became the target of a smear campaign.

  • On March 23, the Liberal.hr portal published a blog by Mario Nakić in which it sought to discredit the Klimatski portal, claiming that it was financed by Prime Minister Andrej Plenković. The article called on readers to sanction the ruling coalition in the parliamentary elections for allegedly financing the Klimatski portal.
  • On March 24, the “Most” MP, Marin Miletić, shared a video on his personal X account in which he criticized the Klimatski portal. In the post, he repeated Nakić’s claims that Prime Minister Plenković was financing the Klimatski portal, and described the editor-in-chief of Faktograf, Petar Vidov, as an advocate of censorship and a stifler of civil liberties and rights during the pandemic.
  • On April 3, 2024, Narod.hr published an article titled “Faktograf discovers new business niche: With the help of the state, It controls what is written about the climate”, continuing the discrediting narrative that began at the end of March.