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“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 – […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

Volodymyr Zelensky did not publish the book “My Struggle”

27 October 2022

Photo: Volodimir Zelenski/Shutterstock A photo of the front page of the fictional book “My Struggle” by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is being compared on social networks to Adolf Hitler’s autobiography “Mein Kampf”. At the end of October, a photo of the book “My Struggle” was shared on social networks, featuring the President of Ukraine Volodymyr […]

Fake news about Ukrainian gold in Poland used as a reason to make unfounded announcements of the entry of the Polish army into Ukraine

27 September 2022

Incorrect claims that Ukraine transferred foreign exchange reserves and gold stocks to Poland were the basis for making unfounded announcements of the entry of the Polish army into Ukraine, which were also reported by web portals in the region.   On July 16, 2022, Webtribune published an article quoting a former Ukrainian parliamentarian Illia Kyva, who claims […]

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