Tag: MEMO 98

KYRGYZ ELECTIONS IN SOCIAL MEDIA

15.10.2020 Zheenbekov loses out in Kyrgyzstan’s Instagram election Monitoring of the disputed Kyrgyz elections showed the now ousted President Zheebenkov was outcompeted by other political figures and parties on social media – despite being the most...

MEMO 98 PROVIDED TRAINING TO THE MOLDOVAN MEDIA REGULATOR PRIOR TO THE UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2020

05.10.2020 The 1 November presidential election in Moldova will be the second direct presidential vote since 2016 (between 2000 and 2016 the president was elected by the parliament). By law, the president is elected for a four-year term in a single nationwide...

OUT OF TOUCH

13.08.2020 Belarusians no longer prepared to play along with Lukashenka’s flawed election By not inviting international election observers, Lukashenka made an early statement that he would try to hold onto power no matter what. But he might have miscalculated...

ELECTION MONITORS: LUKASHENKA USED EVERY TRICK IN HIS OUTDATED PLAYBOOK TO SURVIVE

10.08.2020 The presidential election in Belarus fell well short of international standards for transparent, free and fair elections, and saw a clear attempt by the authorities to manipulate the outcome, according to independent election monitoring organisations.

LUKASHENKA'S PROPAGANDA MODEL BREAKS IN FACE OF SOCIAL MEDIA MOVEMENT

10.08.2020 Source: Radio Liberty INTRODUCTION Between 29 April – 19 May (first monitoring period) and 3 – 23 June 2020 (second monitoring period), MEMO 98, a Slovak non-profit specialist media-monitoring organization, in cooperation with the Eurasian...

AN ANALOG CAMPAIGN IN A DIGITAL AGE: LUKASHENKA FALTERS IN THE FACE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

03.08.2020 President Lukashenko has tried to play down the upcoming election as an unnecessary distraction from business as usual, but an active social media movement has shown the public is no longer prepared to go along with an alternate reality, according to a new...

ODPOLITIZOVANIE RTVS

23.05.2020 OBSE odporúča posúdiť zmenu voľby riaditeľa RTVS. Vedenie RTVS nesúhlasí s kritikou, že pomáhalo SNS. RVR dostala počas volieb viaceré sťažnosti aj na RTVS. Ako zmeniť voľbu riaditeľa RTVS?

STANOVISKO MEMO 98 K REAKCII RTVS NA PREDVOLEBNÝ MONITORING

12.05.2020 V súvislosti s 2.schôdzou Výboru NR SR pre kultúru a médiá (7.4.2020), na ktorej Výbor riešil objektivitu spravodajstva RTVS a zaviazal generálneho riaditeľa RTVS o vyjadrenie, sme 21.4. z Výboru dostali odpoveď RTVS (Informácia RTVS), v ktorej televízia reagovala predovšetkým na zistenia monitoringu MEMO 98 zhrnuté v záverečnej správe z 24.marca 2020. Stanovisko MEMO 98 k tejto Informácii, ktoré bolo súčasťou 5.schôdze Výboru (12.5.2020) venovaného objektivite spravodajstva RTVS najmä v predvolebnom období, je nižšie.

THE MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE 2020 SLOVAK PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

05.05.2020 The main purpose of the monitoring was to determine if voters had ample information to make qualified choices at the ballot box and whether this information was sufficiently diverse, balanced, and of adequate quality. Since we wanted to have the most precise and fresh data on what sources people use to receive information about domestic politics, we outsourced the Focus polling agency to conduct a survey in the second half of January 2020. The results of the survey demonstrate that television continues to be the dominant source of information about domestic politics for the majority of people. Three times fewer people get information from online media (websites) and as much as six times fewer people get their information from social media. Based on the survey results, and in context with the 2020 parliamentary elections, we, therefore, decided to focus on monitoring of four nationwide TV channels, twelve selected online media as well as Facebook and Instagram.