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The Bots Must be Crazy – Super special, fans and haters

Printscreen from the online campaign for positive promotion of the party bots in Serbia | Source: Instagram profile of Aleksandar Vučić   Someone is a proud political party bot, while another is praising the party leader and attacking his opponents, under the threat of losing his/her job. Yet, one thing is certain - the number of people recruited by political parties...

Glorification and support for the teenage murderer – How TikTok content presented the massacre in Serbia?

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...

Simba came to Kumanovo… Is there wildlife trafficking in North Macedonia?

Photos and videos of men and women, and even children, posing with a lion cub, have been appearing frequently on the social networks in the past few days. This trend of taking shots with a lion cub, no older than three months, in expensive cars, villas and hotels, was brought to public's attention by the Skopje Zoo's spokesperson, Tina...

Young people claim they can recognize false news, but they believe the disinformation about COVID-19

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...

Journalist associations condemn the hate speech in social networks to Metamorphosis Foundation’s personnel

The Council of Media Ethics of Macedonia (CMEM), the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM), the Macedonian Independent Syndicate of Journalists and Media Workers (ISJMW), and the Macedonian Institute for Media (MIM) condemn the hate speech against the personnel of the civil society organization Metamorphosis, which was spread in the social networks with the publication of an article "(PHOTO)...

Lynch lists circulating on social networks after yesterday’s protests outside the SEC

Last night during a protest by supporters of the VMRO-DPMNE before the State Election Commission, where members were reviewing complaints and objections made by the parties during the elections, on social networks, lists of names and addresses appeared of some of the protesters from the "Colourful Revolution". Along with the lists, there were calls urging VMRO-DPMNE supporters to "visit"...

SDSM: Employees of the administration are working on social networks on orders of VMRO-DPMNE

After the published recordings of wiretapping, fixing judges and abusing in mounted processes, Municipal Committee of VMRO-DPMNE went on unscrupulous battle to conquer the social networks by abusing the employees of state and municipal institutions, as well as students in schools, today accused the municipal organization of SDSM in Ohrid through a statement. - In Ohrid, the directors of public...