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Huge rally in Bremen as Germans protest against far-right continue

The north-western German city of Bremen saw thousands of people fill its streets on Sunday to demonstrate against right-wing extremism, as weeks of nationwide protests continued at the weekend. The police estimated the number of participants at around 16,500, while the organizers put it higher...

From Alaska via Putin and Moscow to the Balkans and finally to North Macedonia

PHOTO: Collage: Vladimir Putin, screenshot/YoutTube; map of Alaska, public domain Facebook posts are spreading disinformation regarding Putin’s latest decree according to which Alaska, the Baltic countries, Tibet, and other territories that historically belonged to the USSR and Imperial Russia will be retrieved back. The fake...

The alleged Nazism in Kyiv still the subject of Russian disinformation

Several disinformation narratives have prevailed this year in the Macedonian-language online space and media – from Ukraine’s “statehood being at stake” should the war continue, to the claim that Zelenskyy has lost popularity. The most consistent disinformation narrative, however, concerns the connection between Kyiv...

Serbian tabloids “toppled” North Macedonia’s Kovachevski-led government

Photo: Government of North Macedonia Despite the inaccurate, inflammatory, and nationalistic articles online, North Macedonia’s government was not “toppled”, nor did “the Albanians, slowly but surely, seize the power”. The newly elected government is a so-called technical government, also known as a “Przhino government”, in...

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,...

A disinformation round “Sofia-Belgrade-Skopje” with a typical Russian flair

The flow of Russian disinformation has become familiar – it starts in Russia, travels to Serbia, and from there, it spreads throughout the entire Western Balkans. In the following case, however, disinformation’s source is in Bulgaria. The avalanche of disinformation started with an episode...

CSOs and experts warn of dangers posed by the new UN cybercrime treaty

A large array of civil society organizations and experts  has called on the state delegations participating in the concluding session of the United Nations (UN) Ad Hoc Committee to ensure that the proposed Cybercrime Convention is narrowly focused on tackling cybercrime, and not used...

The video doesn’t show Chinese immigrants fleeing from Russia

Photo: A screenshot from the video The video shared in the post we are fact-checking does not show Chinese immigrants fleeing from Russia following Putin’s offer of citizenship to foreigners fighting for Russia. It shows people traveling from Russia for New Year’s holidays. The video...

Putin did not say that Bulgaria should be divided

A post on a Russian blog which is someone’s personal opinion first made rounds in Bulgarian media and then in Macedonian media and social networks, with a special addition – a statement allegedly made by Putin regarding dividing Bulgaria. However, Putin has never made...

German defence minister warns Ukraine war could expand

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius warned that the war between Russia and Ukraine could expand beyond the neighbouring countries, publishes dpa news agency. "We hear threats from the Kremlin almost every day - most recently again against our friends in the Baltic states," Pistorius told...

Flights cancelled in Frankfurt as Germany digs out from winter storm

Hundreds of flights at Frankfurt Airport in Germany have been cancelled on Thursday, a day after a winter storm forced the airport to suspend take-offs and landings for several hours, publishes DPA news agency. Heavy snowfall in Frankfurt and throughout western Germany, meanwhile, left some...

Casino advertisement presented as Satanic ritual in Ukrainian church

Photo: A screenshot from the video A video featuring people donning Satanic costumes, masks, and makeup dancing and singing in Ukrainian is being used by the Russian propaganda apparatus to disinform the public. It is insinuated that it was recorded in Ukrainian church, thus making...

Top German lawmakers meet farmers amid tractor protests

Farming industry leaders met top lawmakers from all three political parties in Germany's governing coalition on Monday amid mass protests by farmers in Berlin over subsidy cuts, German Agency DPA published. Parliamentary leaders from the Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and Free Democrats (FDP) last week...

There is no evidence that Ukraine is losing 30,000 troops per month in the war with Russia

Photo: ukrinform.net Ukraine’s former Public Prosecutor, Yuriy Lutsenko, is spreading unconfirmed data regarding the number of killed and wounded Ukrainian troops. In fact, in his own statement he calls upon authorities in Ukraine to publish the accurate data of wounded soldiers, thereby tacitly admitting that...

The trust of the Ukrainians in Zelenskyy is not at 42%

Source: ukrinform.net There is no publicly accessible opinion poll in Ukraine which shows that the trust in the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy is 42 percent. Research by the Kyiv International Institute for Sociology shows that the public trust in Zelenskyy is 62 percent. However,...

Scholz blasts far-right plan to repatriate Germany’s immigrants

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has harshly denounced plans by far-right extremists for the repatriation of immigrants, saying no one deserves to be judged on where they come from or the colour of their skin, writes German news agency DPA. "Learning from history is not just...

German train drivers out on strike again in continuing wage dispute

The German train drivers' strike brought passenger rail services across Germany to a near stand-still on Wednesday morning, writes German news agency DPA. Numerous employees started their industrial action at 2 am (0100 GMT), German rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) announced. In freight transport, the...

Interviews, newspaper sections, shows and columns – The growing presence of China in the media in North Macedonia

Collage of photographs by Meta.mk   TV shows, newspaper sections dedicated to China, columns and interviews of the Chinese Ambassador to North Macedonia, as well as promoting and publishing media content from leading Chinese media that are under the direct control of the Chinese Communist Party....

CRTA: Results of the Belgrade elections largely stemmed from illegal electoral engineering

Based on the information gathered and the analyses conducted thus far, the CRTA Election Observation Mission expresses a well-founded suspicion that in the elections on December 17, organized voter migrations occurred to an extent that crucially influenced the outcome of the very close elections...

The disinformation coupled with abuse of artificial intelligence can be harmful to the elections

The last session of today’s e-Society.mk International Conference, which has been organized by Metamorphosis Foundation for the 19th time this year, was dedicated to the issue of disinformation and abuse of artificial intelligence for malign influence on democracy or, more specifically, on the elections...