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Serbia: Coordinated bot attacks on Instagram accounts of independent media emerge as new weapon of censorship - Attempts to block the social media platforms of media organisations represent a worrying new form of digital censorship in Serbia

IPI joins the MFRR partners in raising alarm over a recent wave of bot-driven cyber attacks targeting the social media accounts of Serbian media outlets. Our organisations warn that the dozen recorded incidents are not isolated cases but part of a broader pattern of coordinated attacks on the free flow of news and independent information in Serbia, which remains in a period of media freedom crisis.