Technological development and conspiracy theories

01.July 2024 RV

Development of the 5G network: The specter of the new generation of mobile telephony is spreading through Serbia

Telekom announced the introduction of the 5G network at the end of this year or at the beginning of 2025. The competent ministry has been keeping SBB's request for the introduction of this network "in a drawer" for three years. And while operators are fighting for a better position during the introduction of the fifth generation of mobile telephony, conspiracy theories are becoming more and more numerous, and the number of their supporters is also increasing.

Misinformation

21.February 2024. Filip Mirilović

5G network: Serbia in the vortex of conspiracy theories

We have identified several key actors who are spreading theories that the 5G network causes "extreme neurological damage", that it is a "weapon system designed for global depopulation", and the dominant platforms are Telegram and YouTube. Branimir Nestorović, the leader of the "We - Voice of the People" electoral coalition, is happy to see the source of these channels. For him, the deployment of 5G networks is "humanity's greatest experiment"