ANEM ALARM: Cloned websites N1 and Vreme

The N1 website uses the domain n1info.rs, while the cloned site has taken a similar domain, n1rs.info. This site, hosted on shared hosting in Romania, automatically retrieves and publishes content from several websites, including Nova.rs and several members of ANEM. The content of independent media is mixed with that of tabloids such as Kurir and Telegraf, all under the cloned portal with a similar domain to N1. Over 800 different sites and domains from around the world are hosted on the same IP address. Automatic content retrieval has also been recorded through "pingback messages" that are not sent by actual readers, but by an automated bot after it retrieves text and links from another portal. 

ANEM warns that cloning professional and critical media represents yet another mechanism of political control over the information space during the election period by confusing the public, attempting to undermine the credibility of editorial offices, and suppressing their content in favor of media close to the authorities.

ANEM reminds that this is not the first case in which media or portals using the name, identity, or visual elements of already existing professional editorial offices have appeared in Serbia. Similar cases were previously recorded by Južne vesti, OzonPress, GMINFO, Kolubarske, and the Kompas project, which were launched in 2023 by the weekly Vreme, Nova ekonomija, and the news agency FoNet, after which two more media outlets with the same name emerged. Behind several of these fake "doppelgängers" were interlinked companies whose portals promoted SNS and local authorities, while these companies simultaneously received millions from local budgets through competitions for project co-financing of media.

Since the beginning of 2026, a total of 100 new media outlets have been officially registered in Serbia. Analyzing data from the Media Register of the Business Registers Agency (APR), ANEM found that the highest number of registered online media is 93, followed by six print media and one radio station. Currently, 2,350 public media outlets are listed in the Media Register. 

It should be noted that as of January 1, the newly established company Zapple Media Group has launched a total of 13 portals. The company Best Media Team, owned by the publishers of tabloids Alo and Informer, has purchased several local media outlets in Serbia since the beginning of the year and has registered two new local portals. Večernje novosti has registered Srpski kompas as a weekly and as an internet portal.

The APR has registered the portal Božur, based in Gračanica in Kosovo, which is the 31st media owned by retired officer Slavko Stijaković. Radoica Milosavljević, who previously owned 12 media outlets, has recently registered the portal Koreni.

Among the newly registered portals, a significant number represent local media.

Looking at the total number of registered media on the APR website on a daily basis, it can be observed that about a dozen public outlets have ceased operations in the meantime, as there were 2,262 media outlets at the end of 2025, and there are currently 2,350.

A list of all media registered since the beginning of the year, to which ANEM has gained access through the Media Register APR search, is available on the ANEM website.

Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM)

The project "Improvement of the system of mechanisms for prevention and response to threats to the safety and lives of journalists in Serbia" is being implemented by ANEM in partnership with Insajder TV and the Center for the Development of Local Media, with the support of the European Union.