{"id":19452,"date":"2019-12-09T12:01:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T11:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crta.rs\/?p=19452"},"modified":"2020-02-18T11:13:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T10:13:29","slug":"10-years-in-the-team-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crta.rs\/en\/10-years-in-the-team-of-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"10 years in the team of truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Truth-o-Meter<\/a>, the first fact-checking portal in the region celebrated its tenth anniversary promising to defend the truth even more fiercely and more devotedly and not to give up the fight against lies. The anniversary celebration was marked by the creation of a\u00a0new portal<\/a>\u00a0which will make it even easier for users to search for articles, interviews and rated statements.<\/p>\n

At the very beginning, the Truth-o-Meter\u2019s editor-in-chief Milena Popovi\u0107 thanked the audience for their support and the readers for being true to Truth-o-Meter all these years.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday we\u2019ve launched a new look for our site, so I invite you to check out how rejuvenated and refreshed we are. Unfortunately, the lie has surrounded us, it doesn\u2019t let us call it by its real name, and it doesn\u2019t even let us breath in. However, this won\u2019t stop us doing what we\u2019re already doing and we promise that we will fight for the truth in the next decade, too.\u00a0 We\u2019re entering the new decade more prepared and with brave people around us, which is an additional motivation to move on\u201c, said\u00a0Milena Popovi\u0107.<\/p>\n

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As part of our anniversary celebration, Truth-o-Meter wanted to give acknowledgments for the greatest falsehoods in its archive, which we classified into 4 categories: the greenest absurdity of the decade, the inconsistency of the decade, the unfulfilled promise of the decade, and the lie of the decade. The vote posted on the Truth-o-Meter portal was cancelled due to a cyberattack, when about 10 thousand votes were converted to 350 thousand votes, thus changing the existing results. The former \u201cwinners\u201d, who had the lead in terms of falsehoods and who are mainly the government representatives, were all of a sudden replaced by the opposition representatives, i.e. the representatives of the former government. Someone\u2019s aim was most certainly to alter the results of the \u201cLie of the Decade\u201d survey. \u00a0The most interesting statements\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0that marked these ten years are still available on our portal, but with modified results.<\/p>\n

\u201cTen years are behind us and that\u2019s an amazing fact. There were many people coming and going, but they were all fighting for the same goal. At the beginning, I thought that Truth-o-Meter was just one of the initiatives to fight for the emergence of an accountable society, but Truth-o-Meter has grown into a serious team. Thank you to everyone who contributed to making Truth-o-Meter what it is today\u201c,\u00a0 stressed\u00a0Vukosava Crnjanski, director at CRTA and founder of Truth-o-Meter.<\/p>\n

Although, after a decade of advocating for the truth, lies still have the lead, the Truth-o-Meter team continues to hold political actors accountable for public speaking. It also seeks to provide its readers with an objective analysis of a number of social and economic issues as well as with various life stories of citizens who fight for their rights.<\/p>\n

You can see in a short film about its creation and a team that has worked hard all these years.<\/p>\n