At least five Slovenian portals which are sources of disinformation or disseminate disinformation earned advertising euros through the Google AdSense platform in 2021 and 2022, Oštro can reveal. Advertisers could block advertising on disinformation portals, but they do not.
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At least five Slovenian portals which are sources of disinformation or disseminate disinformation earned advertising euros through the Google AdSense platform in 2021 and 2022, Oštro can reveal. Advertisers could block advertising on disinformation portals, but they do not.
In Slovenia, no one except the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption knows what assets high-ranking officials own. They cannot judge whether they are gaining illicitly from holding public office. This is why Oštro has decided to turn the light on for the public and track politicians' assets in the Asset Detector.
Disgraced former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner personally funded an ethnically divisive disinformation campaign in Trinidad and Tobago designed by an election engineering firm to discourage black Trinidadians from voting.
Katerina Tikhonova, the daughter of the Russian president, visited Slovenia at least five times between 2014 and 2019. Even though the visit was not by a foreign leader but by his daughter, the authorities should have been notified of visits by Tikhonova in advance. It is not clear if they were.
What is the cost of security companies such as G4S? One way of calculating the harm is counting the dead and injured.
A backpack equipped with a tracking device that Oštro dropped off in a waste bin in Moravske Toplice, Slovenia, pinged back its location from a port in Oman, from where it travelled on to Pakistan. The country is the most popular destination for second-hand clothing from the EU.
Oštro tested the Slovenian communal waste management system by setting tracking devices on waste items then disposing of them in correct or incorrect ways. A torn backpack travelled all the way to a Croatian port, while workers at a gas station threw separately collected plastic waste into a mixed waste container.
Most discarded clothing in Slovenia end up in black containers intended for mixed communal waste. Oštro followed textile waste by equipping it with tracking devices and disposing of it in different locations.
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