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Albania
Traditionally, the ability to put a hard question to someone in power and expect an answer has belonged to a small group: journalists with press credentials, elected officials in a parliamentary session, researchers with institutional standing. Everyone else could complain, speculate, or vote — but not ask directly, publicly, and expect
Lithuania
Ask a public question, and there are only two outcomes worth paying attention to: an answer, or the absence of one. Most platforms treat these two outcomes very differently. An answer becomes content — it gets published, discussed, shared. Silence becomes nothing. The question fades, the thread goes quiet, and eventually
Albania
Most platforms that claim to enable public accountability end up doing the opposite. They open a comment section, invite everyone to weigh in, and call it engagement. What actually happens is different: the loudest voices dominate, nuance disappears, and the original question gets buried under hundreds of replies that have
Albania
Most accountability happens too late. A decision gets made behind closed doors. Months later, someone asks about it — a journalist, a citizen, an opposition politician. By then, the decision is already implemented, the budget is spent, the contract is signed. The question, however sharp, can only explain what happened. It