How tabloids in Serbia welcome the Day of the Fight against Hate Speech
“Do you really think the president is going to deal with all your nonsense, you lying fool?!”; “Get well, woman” but also “Fool of 100” and “Fools came to sue Vučić”.
These headlines in newspapers and on portals tabloids in Serbia they welcome June 18, the Day of the fight against hate speech. The idea of this text is certainly not to spread insults and insults with which certain regime portals and newspapers are poisoning the media space of Serbia, but quite the opposite – to point out this burning problem.
Thus, Informer reported the statement of SNS MP Milica Nikolić, who called Marinika Tepić a “lying fool” because she is publishing information that allegedly links Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić to criminals. In this context, Pink conveyed the reaction of progressive Nevena Đurić Nikitović that “Marinika Tepić’s lies have long crossed the limits of common sense.”
“What your mind comes up with, and then utters, long ago crossed the boundaries of common sense! To justify being the most faithful of Djilas’ rags! But this whining that no one listens to you and does not respond to your nonsense is truly tragicomic. Heal yourself, woman,” reports Pink.
Whoever touches Vučić should get ready
The tabloids controlled by Vučić call, for example, the rapporteur of the European Parliament, Tonino Picula, a “proven Serb hater”, while the name of the engineer Dragan Đajić is labeled “a 100-year-old fool”, along with the text that he allegedly saw Ana Brnabić entering the restaurant, and invented that she decided to flee Serbia.
Similar epithets were cheerfully “honored” by the people who came to the Prosecutor’s Office to support the lawsuit filed against Aleksandar Vučić for visiting seriously injured patients who were injured in the fires in North Macedonia. Vučić, with a horde of journalists, visited people in intensive care, where entry is strictly prohibited.
“Fools came to sue Vučić because he visited the injured from North Macedonia,” reads the headline about this event.
And Novosti calls Aleksandar Kavčić, whose foundation collects money for teachers whose salaries were stolen by the state, a CIA agent, while B92 reports the statement of Ana Brnabić, who calls the rector of Belgrade University, Vladan Đokić, “a scourge that has befallen higher education.”
Who hates in the media space of Serbia
Nevertheless, from the numerous headlines of Serbian tabloids, especially on the Day of the Fight Against Hate Speech, it can be seen that they often just transmit hate speech, they don’t have to invent it themselves – because the coins come from leading people in government.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, said in May 2025 that “the increase in hate speech, both on the Internet and in traditional media in Serbia, is worrying,” and that this practice has drastically intensified since the beginning of the student protests.
The General Secretary of the Press Council, Gordana Novaković, explained that since the beginning of the year, professors and students have been the target of orchestrated media raids that publish content with the aim of discrediting, and often act in sync, beyond editorial autonomy, with political support and almost without consequences.
Women are the first targets of hate speech in the media and on social networks in Serbia, according to the monitoring results of the non-governmental Diversity Reporting Network. Hate speech is dominant both towards members of the LGBTI community and towards national minorities.
Source: Vreme
