Tag: social media

Author: Goshe Nikolov “Only a genius can kill 9 young persons; he is a genius”. This is a statement from the social network TikTok, written above the photographs of 13-year old K.K. from Serbia, accused for murdering a total of 9 persons – eight students and a school security guard. The video has almost 620.000 views and over 90.000 likes. The user-account...

Facing the data from numerous public opinion polls and analyses which indicate that the public opinion is shifting away from the mainstream media toward the Internet, mostly to the social networks, and that more and more people are influenced by the social networks and become encapsulated within their own echo chambers or groups of people they share their opinions...

Around three quarters (74%) of the people in North Macedonia that responded to the questions at the online poll for youngsters have answered they can recognize false news. Twenty-one percent (21%) have never thought that certain news is false, while the remaining 5% have responded that they cannot recognize false news. The online polls for young people were carried out...

On August the 22nd, the Government of the Republic of Macedonia came to the decision not to advertise with electronic broadcasters, newspapers and news portals, as well as billboards, but reserves the right to inform about its activities through social media. 15.800 denars were spent on this information since its appointment in June, stated government spokesman, Mile Bosnjakovski for “Meta” regarding...