Serbia’s lying problem

Abetted by fake news stories, manipulation of social media, and continual lying, the coming to power of Donald Trump has raised the question of whether other countries’ populations might be susceptible to the same level of deceit. An interesting case is Serbia, whose current prime minister, Aleksandar Vucic, a former ultranationalist who served as an information minister in the late 1990s, when newspapers were fined and shut down in order to