43 years in Syria’s prisons for refusing to bomb a city
14 January 2025
Jailed for rejecting Assad’s orders during Hama’s massacre, Al-Tatari's release after 43 years marks the resilience of human integrity.
On January 10, all eyes will be on Venezuela
9 January 2025
Venezuela's presidency feels like a toss-up as both candidates call for massive protests ahead of inauguration day on January 10.
“Nulta Tachka” – Serbia’s anti-Western propaganda channel
29 August 2024
It’s not very difficult to note that every other post on the website is anti-Western and portrays Western countries as unjust, controversial and full of crime. Conspiracy theories aimed at fostering disruption and uncertainty among citizens are based on a few postulates or main ideas: migration, the World Economic Forum, COVID vaccination and all the […]
The disinformation agents set their sights on the Olympics
16 August 2024
Back in early June, Microsoft warned that Russia is waging a malign disinformation campaign aimed at the Paris Olympics and the French President Emmanuel Macron. According to their information, the influence operations include fabricated videos, fake news and AI-generated speeches, such as the case with the imitated voice of Hollywood actor Tom Cruise, writes Truthmeter.mk. […]
CSOs and experts warn of dangers posed by the new UN cybercrime treaty
26 January 2024
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 as a tool to undermine human rights. In their joint statement, […]
First-instance verdict in Štrpci Case overturned – trial restored
15 December 2023
On 30 October 2023, the Court of Appeal in Belgrade issued a decision annulling the first-instance verdict in the Štrpci Case and returning the case for retrial. The Humanitarian Law Center considers it inadmissible that thirty years after the abduction and murder of twenty civilians in Štrpci, the judicial authorities are unable to conduct the procedure in a […]
Baerbock: Gaza ceasefire should act as bridge to political process
28 November 2023
The temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas should be used as a bridge for a political process aimed at finding a lasting solution to the conflict, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said, writes German news agency DPA. “The central thing we are currently struggling for is to see the suffering of others. Because only when […]
Scholz vows German help for Egyptian efforts to free Hamas hostages
19 October 2023
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has promised Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah al-Sissi German help with efforts to secure the release of hostages kidnapped from Israel by the Islamist militant group Hamas, writes German news agency DPA. “We are making every effort to secure their release,” Scholz said in a joint press conference with al-Sissi in Cairo […]
German court sentences Russian man who plotted to kill Chechen critic
1 September 2023
A Russian citizen who plotted the assassination of a Chechen dissident living in German exile was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday by a court in Munich, writes German news agency DPA. The convicted man, identified only as Valid D, had plotted to kill Mokhmad Abdurakhmanov on the orders of a cousin of […]
When Did Russia Return among the Top Ten Economies in the World – If at All?
20 June 2023
In the first part of June, some of the Macedonian language media reported that Russia returned on the list of the Top 10 economies for the first time after 2014. Rarely did the news reported on the portals specify their sources. However, after fact-checking the data, Truthmeter derived the conclusion that the Macedonian public – […]
Loads of disinformation about Ukraine in a video promoting numerous pro-Russian narratives
27 May 2023
Photo: Screenshot from a manipulative video about Zelenskyy and the Azov Batallion As a guest in a morning show on a USA television, the famous controversial journalist Lara Logan presented loads of unfounded claims about the war in Ukraine and the Russian aggression that almost entirely overlapped with the Russian disinformation narratives about Ukraine and […]
Neither Putin is fighting evil, nor Gates is poisoning people from the sky
17 April 2023
More than a year ago, the Russian military invaded Ukraine, which as a sovereign country has every right to defend itself. The narrative that “Putin is fighting evil” stems from Russian propaganda, struggling to justify the criminal acts performed on alien territory. Bill Gates is the favourite figure in various conspiracy theories, including this one […]
The Russian Embassy in Skopje – Main Diplomatic Internet Spammer in North Macedonia
17 March 2023
The Russian Embassy in Skopje is a record-breaker when it comes to the number of Facebook posts. The country is of top regional interest of Kremlin – out of the whole Balkans, only the Russian diplomatic mission in Romania posts more frequently on Facebook. The hybrid war in North Macedonia by the Russian Secret Services […]
Selective reporting regarding the investigation of the Independent International Commission on Ukraine
17 February 2023
In the articles of some media about the report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry for Ukraine, the cases of war crimes committed by the Russian armed forces in Ukraine were completely omitted, and only the cases committed by Ukraine were presented. On October 18, 2022, the web portal Sputnik Serbia published an article […]
The state of online free expression worldwide in 2022
8 February 2023
“From internet shutdowns, crackdowns on expression and closed-door partnerships to attempts to restrict anonymity and end to end encryption, in many places, digital rights are under threat,” writes IFEX.org in this article republished by Meta.mk. This statement was originally published by the IFEX member Electronic Fronteer Foundation – EFF.org on 27 December 2022. It’s been a […]
Global Voices: With the US intervention, Kosovo and Serbia resolve the car license plate dispute
25 November 2022
Kosovo thanks the US; Serbia has its own interpretation, writes “Global Voices”. Meta.mk republishes the original article, under the cooperation agreement with “Global Voices”. Two days after Kosovo and Serbia failed to reach an agreement on the row centering on a decision made by the Kosovo government to ban Serbian-issued license plates after a long […]
“Handmaiden’s Tale” author Margaret Atwood shuns Russian sanctions, ridicules travel ban
17 November 2022
Canadian poet and writer Margaret Atwood was joined by Hollywood actor Jim Carrey in ridiculing the travel ban to Russia imposed on them alongside 98 other Canadians. On November 14, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation published a list with a hundred Canadian citizens targeted with “personal sancions” as an act of […]
All the “conspiracies” against Dodik: A narrative that does not stop even though time itself denies it
8 November 2022
Photo: SNSD.org The narrative according to which foreign countries are working to “destroy” the Republic of Srpska and/or Milorad Dodik, the newly elected president of this BiH entity, is often published in numerous media, including on public service. Claims about “coloured revolutions”, “a plan to destroy the Republic of Srpska”, or a plan to “overthrow” […]
A fictional report by Euronews: No auction of Russian works to be destroyed
4 November 2022
Photo: Freepik/@ fabrikasimf A fake video of the Euronews television network is being shared on social networks about an auction in Germany where it will be possible to buy Russian works of art that will be destroyed, and the collected money will be donated to Ukraine. A video has gone viral on social media claiming […]
News Front: Pro-Russian disinformation from Crimea is also reaching Bosnia and Herzegovina
3 November 2022
Photo: Freepik/@ fidaolga The private news agency News Front, which operates from the territory of Crimea, is a frequent propagator of pro-Russian disinformation in our area since it also publishes content in the Serbian language. The News Front web portal operates in several languages in which it publishes pro-Russian content, and there is also an […]
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