An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from the world’s fact-checkers
The International Fact-Checking Network has published an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of the technology company Meta, which includes social networks Facebook, Instagram and Threads, in connection with Zuckerberg’s recent statement that he will abolish the fact-checking program in the United States....
Outdated recruitment efforts by the Embassy of Ukraine in Skopje misused against NATO
A Facebook post lacks context due to the fact that it does not clarify that the Embassy of Ukraine in Skopje’s announcement of the recruitment effort is not new and active, but outdated, and that it was followed by a statement from the Ministry...
Defending itself against Russia’s armed aggression, Ukraine legally bans Russian Church
Russian propaganda tried to portray the fact that the Ukrainian government banned the Moscow-affiliated Orthodox Church as a “persecution of Christians” and as a tendency of the West, which supports Ukraine, to destroy Orthodoxy and the Orthodox Church. This kind of narrative is also...
Online hysteria over Durov: After Russia exiled him, concerns intensify about his arrest and freedom of speech
Russia, which took control of Durov’s first company and which prompted him to establish Telegram while being in exile is now expressing concern about his arrest. Media outlets there report on the absurdity of the accusations against him and consider the Telegram case an...
“Nulta Tachka” – Serbia’s anti-Western propaganda channel
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...
The West does not deny the Ukrainian identity and religion, Russia does
t is Russia that denies the Ukrainian identity and religion, not Western countries. Western countries are not “gay systems” that Russia is fighting against in defense of traditional values, as the Kremlin propaganda wants to promote. Such an attitude is merely a justification for...
New villas, old lies: disinformation about Zelensky circulating once again
Disinformation claiming that the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been living lavishly is once again circulating in the region. This time, he “purchased” an opulent villa with a winery and a vineyard belonging to the English musician Sting. Colleagues from the Georgian Myth Detector checked...
A former Japanese diplomat’s personal stance misused to foster fear of Ukraine’s disintegration
Taken and translated from the Serbian version of Sputnik, the Facebook post twists the truth and spreads several pieces of disinformation. To begin with, it quotes a former Japanese diplomat, whose views by no means reflect the official position of Japan. During the entire...
It is not true that “the West deceives the Ukrainians into death”
The West does not deceive the Ukrainians into death, but provides them aid for self-defense, which is essential for them. The West would not be providing aid if the country had no use of it and if Russia had no territorial claims on Ukraine....
Russian and Chinese fighter aircraft never flew over the United States
A Facebook post claims that Russian and Chinese fighter aircraft flew into US airspace, but in reality, they only came close to but did not overfly Alaska and were eventually escorted back by American and Canadian interceptors. This has been happening for quite some...
Counterspin: Russia was “banned” from several Olympics, but the ban has nothing to do with the Nazis
The Paris Olympics are underway and the Russian athletes are not allowed to participate. The MP from the pro-Russian party Levica (The Left), Redzep Ismail, claims that the last such case was the Olympics in Berlin in 1936. That is untrue, and Ismail creates...
It is not true that in Kyiv’s children hospital there was NATO General Staff
Neither the Ukrainian nor the Russian side has indicated that the Children’s Hospital in Kyiv was used as a location for NATO’s General Staff, as claimed by the post. The biggest military organization, NATO, is not involved in the war in Ukraine, nor does...
Fabricated statement by Orban is promoting pro-Kremlin narrative about the war in Ukraine
While the European Parliament condemned the meeting between Orban and Putin, it is not true that the EU demanded Orban to pay 2 million euros and that he did not have the money, so Putin and Xi Jinping offered to lend him the money...
French documentary abused for false claims about Macedonian soldiers going to Ukraine
The video in the post was first online in September 2022. It is an excerpt from a 115-minute French documentary film titled: “A President, Europe, and War” with dialogues between Macron, Putin, Zelenskyy, and other world leaders. The post promotes the video as though...
Поранешниот руски радарски систем „Дуга“ претставен како мамутски ХААРП систем во САД
Truthmeter googled the photographs from the video and concluded that the footage showed ”Duga” – the Russian radar system over the horizon (OTH) used in the Soviet Union as part of the early warning radar network for missile defense, writes Truthmeter.mk.
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Glorifying lies about Putin, Russian army, elections and economy
A Facebook post attempts to debunk the Western narratives about Putin as illegitimate, by mixing evidence-based claims with unsupported assertions. For example, it is true that currently there are no big protests in Russia against Putin, but there is a reason for that. The...
Support for Ukraine by VMRO-DPMNE functionaries is not the same as support for “Nazism and Fascism”
The post, essentially, says that the support for Ukraine extended by the functionaries of VMRO-DPMNE is the same as the alleged support for “Nazism and Fascism in Ukraine and in the EU”, which is not true. This narrative corresponds to the pro-Kremlin narrative that...
Manipulating the Ban of “Compact” Magazine in Germany
A Facebook post spreads Kremlin manipulation, claiming the ban was due to the magazine’s pro-Russian stance, citing an interview with the Russian MFA spokesperson, Maria Zakharova from 13.7.2024 as the cause. Although the magazine was inclined toward Russia, that was not its main topic and according to...
Fighting the fires has nothing to do with the aid N. Macedonia is providing to Ukraine
The post, published without any facts or evidence, all while using photographs from abroad, wants to stir emotions and cause revolt, making illfounded comparisons. Fires have happened in Macedonia before and they will happen in the future. The country is fighting them using all...
The War in Ukraine Is Not the Work of Joe Biden and the “Deep State”
The war in Ukraine, which began in 2014 with Russia's annexation of Crimea and escalated in 2022 with the invasion of the entire territory of Ukraine, started on the orders of the supreme commander of the Russian army, President Vladimir Putin. Joe Biden and...
