{"id":6712,"date":"2023-05-19T12:17:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T11:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/?p=6712"},"modified":"2024-05-06T13:12:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T12:12:43","slug":"informers-photo-manipulation-the-image-of-the-empty-plateau-in-front-of-the-national-assembly-as-proof-that-the-protest-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/2023\/05\/19\/informers-photo-manipulation-the-image-of-the-empty-plateau-in-front-of-the-national-assembly-as-proof-that-the-protest-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"Informer’s photo manipulation: The image of the empty plateau in front of the National Assembly as \u201cproof\u201d that the protest failed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Original article<\/a> (in Serbian) was published on 09\/05\/2023<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Two mass murders during the last week in Serbia were the reason for thousands of citizens to gather yesterday at the \u201cSerbia against violence\u201d protest. However, Informer\u2019s readers could not see photos of a large number of people on the streets of Belgrade. This pro-regime tabloid published a video of an almost empty plateau in front of the National Assembly, implying that the turnout was small and that the protest failed. The truth, however, is different – at the moment when the Informer announced it, the mass of people was already in front of the Government\u2019s building.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTheir protest was so successful that the traffic in front of the Assembly is functioning normally!\u201d, this is the title of the text published on the web portal of Informer<\/a>, which, as it says on the website, was published at 19:14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLess than an hour after the start of the pompously announced protest by the opposition, the plateau in front of the National Assembly is completely empty\u201d, this tabloid states and the same news was soon published by the web portal Alo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As proof that the protest \u201cfailed\u201d, Informer published a camera shot of Nikola Pasic Square. It shows a part of the street in front of the parliament which was really almost empty at that moment – you can see a few cars in motion as well as a small number of people on the sidewalks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Printscreen Informer.rs<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, this was a manipulation – a crowd in which there were thousands of people, and which Informer\u2019s readers did not see, was at that moment not far from there – in Knez Milos Street, near the Serbian Government\u2019s building. People gathered in front of the National Assembly starting at 6 p.m., from where they slowly headed towards the Government after about half an hour, where they started arriving around 7 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: KRIK (citizens gathered along Kneza Milosa Street at 7:15 p.m.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a significant mass of people and this could be seen in numerous posts on social networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Okupljeni gra\u0111ani uputili su se u mirnu \u0161etnju do zgrade Vlade Srbije. pic.twitter.com\/n7lfDAKCVr<\/a><\/p>— KRIK (@KRIKrs) May 8, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>