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The World Health Organization is not killing children in Gaza

Phото: who.int It is not true that the World Health Organization is killing children in Gaza. On the contrary, WHO representatives are constantly delivering medical and non-medical aid to Gaza, where hospitals have been demolished and conditions for medical treatment are dreadful. WHO collects donations for Gaza and relentlessly calls for a ceasefire in the region. WHO has representatives on...

Truthmeter’s response to the latest disinformation campaign against their website and newsroom

What can be noted from this disinformation campaign – just like in the previous ones – is the lack of argumentation on the side of those attacking, related to possible errors, oversight, or inaccuracy expressed by Truthmeter’s editorial staff to justify the criticism and threats against us. Among these numerous manipulations and untruths, there is simply not a trace...

Unwanted imports: Anti-EU Kremlin disinformation rides high in N. Macedonia

Most of the anti-EU Kremlin disinformation in N. Macedonia originate abroad, both in Russia and in the West, and then arrive in the country through the social platforms and some through the internet media. Some of them are then adjusted to the local context, and the small number of disinformation pushing Kremlin narratives are native. Because of this, there...

EU does not negate the Macedonian nation, history and statehood

The facts show that the EU does not deny the Macedonian language, identity, and statehood in any way whatsoever. The reason why Ukraine and Moldova started EU accession talks before North Macedonia is not related to the EU disputing the Macedonian nation, language, history, or statehood, but to the fact that no one blocked the start of accession talks....

Ukraine does not send pregnant women to fight the Russians

Photo: Screenshot from the video in the FB post There is no relevant evidence in support of the video. According to the Centre for Strategic Communication established by the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and Information Policy on countering disinformation, the video is fake and fabricated. The fact is that Ukraine is not sending pregnant women to fight the Russians in...

A manipulation with altered photograph to show Nazy symbol on the Ukrainian uniform

Photo: Screenshot of the FB post The photograph in the fact-checked post, showing two people with Nazi symbols on their uniforms, is altered. Foreign fact-checkers have determined that the Ukrainian flag emblem was added to the uniform of the man on the left. The eagle on the sleeve of the man on the right was copied from the uniform of...

Levica snatched up Kremlin’s megaphone

Representatives of Levica on the celebration in Moscow on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Soviet Pioneers Photo: Official Levica's FB page A large part of the public in North Macedonia already perceives Levica (The Left) as a pro-Russian party, deeply embedded in the Kremlin propaganda machinery. The party uses the Moscow terminology, calling the...

Claim that Zelenskyy was singing in Russian language based on digitally altered video

Photo: Screenshot from the video It’s not Zelenskyy the one who sings in the video shared on Facebook. Furthermore, the singing is not in Russian. The video is digitally altered, and Zelenskyy was “inserted” in the place of the Ukrainian comedian Vasyl Baydak, who with the song is appealing for donations for the Ukrainian Army, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement...

The barcode does not signify product’s country of origin

Photo: Gerd Altmann on Pixabay The post we are fact-checking falsely suggests that if the barcode of the product starts with the digits 729, that means that the product was manufactured in Israel, which according to the barcode assigning company is not true. The digit 729 just signifies that the barcode was allocated by an organization in Israel, but the...

Scholz did not feign there was a rocket attack before he left Tel Aviv Airport

Photo: Screenshot of the video One cannot claim that all media were servicing some kind of Netanyahu propaganda as suggested by the post. The videos show that the sirens clearly alarmed for an air raid and rockets could be seen (according to the texts, the rockets were from Israel’s aircraft defense that repelled the rockets from Hamas). According to the...

It is not true that Russia has defeated Ukraine, nor is it at war with the EU and NATO

The post is spreading disinformation that the Russian military actions on the territory of Ukraine, which took place on 24 February completely unprovoked, are over and that, allegedly, Russia was the winner. The military invasion and the Ukrainian defense, however, are still ongoing and nothing appears to signal that they will end soon. In addition, the post provides disinformation...

Contrary to the disinformation that they are childless, most of the European leaders have children

Photo: Bruno on Pixabay A Facebook post falsely claims that the leaders of EU member states have no offspring. A Truthmeter fact-check, however, proved that most of the prime ministers and presidents of EU Member-States have children, including the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen who has seven children. The post, in fact, demonizes Western values that...

Zelensky is not implementing “extremist regime of ethnic cleansing and genocide”

Ukraine is a republic with a presidential-parliamentary system of government, which is defined within the Constitution from 1996. Just before Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow falsely accused Ukraine of genocide against Russian-speaking citizens in the Donbas region. Putin used this narrative to justify the invasion of Ukraine, but with no evidence to support such allegations. Nevertheless, there...

America is tarnished by disinformation about the wars in Ukraine and Israel cooked up in the “Russian kitchen”

Photo: Screenshot of the video in the FB post The Ukrainian authorities denied the claim that their country was providing arms to Hamas. On Monday (09.10.2023), the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Agency posted on its official Facebook page accusations that Russia launched a disinformation campaign related to these claims. The US continues to support Ukraine in its counter-offensive, but also in...

Heaps of lies about the war in Ukraine, spiced up with “The Great Reset”

Photo: Pixabay.com The post falsely claims that the war in Ukraine was initiated by the collective West, linking that with the “Great Reset”, in which the Jews allegedly have a role to play. The fact is that Russia initiated the war in Ukraine and that the Western countries are just supporting Ukraine in its efforts to defend its territorial integrity...

The video of a convoy stuck at Rafah border crossing is from May 2021

Photo: Screenshot from the video The video clip shared on this Facebook post is not from 2023, but more than two years old. As Reuters’ fact-checkers specify, the video with the Egyptian aid convoy is from May 2021, not from 2023, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk and Meta.mk, we republish the text below:   We are fact-checking a post on...

Biden’s Administration is not providing military aid to Hamas

The USA and Biden’s administration are not financing Hamas. The USA is sending humanitarian assistance for the civilians in Gaza, but it does not go to the terrorist organization that has several financiers, out of which the main is Iran. The USA declared Hamas a terrorist organization and prosecutes all of its citizens or permanent residents who finance this...

Manipulation: NATO Does Not Evacuate Civilians from Israel

NATO is not involved in the evacuation of citizens of three member states, including citizens of North Macedonia. That obligation was taken over by each of the governments separately. The “Air Serbia” flight evacuating Macedonian citizens from Israel was paid from the Budget of North Macedonia, and many officers from the Macedonian diplomatic-consular representations in Tel Aviv were involved...

Practicing Christianity is allowed in Israel

Photo: Government of the Republic of North Macedonia The post omits the context because it does not state that this draft law has not been adopted and does not constitute a legal act in the state of Israel. Failure to provide this information creates a completely different outlook that all who claim that Jesus Christ is God will go to...

Russian COVID-19 vaccines are not banned in North Macedonia

Photo: zdravstvo.gov.mk The Sputnik vaccines are not banned in North Macedonia and they are still available for those who want to be vaccinated for the first time. In addition, the pineal gland, or the epiphysis cerebri, can in no way be affected by a COVID-19 vaccination. This disinformation aimed to create mistrust in the COVID-19 vaccine produced in the EU....