| Country | SR |
| Name and Surname | Several journalists |
| Gender | Group Igor Besermenji, Nedim Sejdinovic, Dinko Gruhonjic, Jovan Gligorijevic, Dragana Peco and Hana Adrovic |
| Date | 08/02/2019 |
| City / Location | Novi Sad, Belgrade |
| Type of incident | Other threats to journalists |
| Media name | Several media |
| Source | Independent Journalists Association of Serbia |
| Was journalist`s association informed | Yes |
| What was journalists' association reaction | IJAS and IJAV publicly reacted and drew the public's attention that so-called bot web sites are spreading across Serbia and sullying the name of professional journalists for the current authorities”. |
Smear campaigns through web sites istraga.rs against professional and independent journalists. The latest example of the smear campaign was the ruthless attack on Igor Besermenji, a columnist for the Autonomija portal, and NDNV president and programme editor, Nedim Sejdinovic and Dinko Gruhonjic. The bot web site istraga.rs claimed that Besermenji is one of the leaders of the protest in Novi Sad and a Vojvodina separatist with similar claims made about the NDNV, Sejdinovic and Gruhonjic. Some 20 days earlier the site targetted professional journalists Jovan Gligorijevic, Dragana Peco and Hana Adrovic.
