8 April 2025
Building bridges of cooperation. Sharing lessons from different experiences with malicious fake news. Creating strategic platforms. The necessity of strategic action. These are some of the main conclusions of the second session titled: “Geopolitical 360 on information threats – European learned lessons shared for the Western Balkans,” which was held within the framework of the […]
10 March 2025
They flooded American conservatives with stories they were eager to read, they used social media algorithms for exactly what they were designed to do, and in doing so, they earned their city the title of “Fake News Capital of the World.” Dozens of media outlets and researchers from universities across the globe have covered the […]
10 January 2025
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. In the letter, the Network recalls that the goal of the […]
12 December 2024
The EU and the US have nothing to do with Nazism. Claims that the EU and the US are Nazi, as well as disinformation about a “satanic NATO” and a “pedophile EU,” feed into pro-Kremlin disinformation, which has especially intensified since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine We analyze a Facebook post which claims that the EU […]
3 December 2024
The US has not given, nor is the Biden administration proposing, the transfer of nuclear weapons to Ukraine. А few days ago, the Biden administration approved the use of US long-range weapons to attack Russian territory. However, these are not nuclear weapons, nor is there a decision to transfer nuclear weapons, as the post inaccurately […]
21 November 2024
There are no US-run biolabs in Ukraine. The country is one of many republics of the former Soviet Union and other countries that work with the Department of Defense within the Cooperative Threat Reduction program. While the US may provide funds to upgrade or build laboratories in other countries, the laboratories are run by partner countries and the purpose of the program […]
12 November 2024
A Facebook post refers to Mariupol as a “city in Russia,” however, according to international law, it is a city in Ukraine, which is under the occupation of Russia. Russia kept it under siege for almost 3 months, during which it destroyed 90 percent of the city, even a maternity hospital and a children’s hospital on March 9, 2022. […]
4 September 2024
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 of Foreign Affairs in which the citizens of North Macedonia are […]
2 September 2024
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 gaining traction on social networks in North Macedonia, promoted by supporters […]
1 September 2024
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 attack on Russia. The Russian embassy in France “immediately took the […]
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 […]
26 August 2024
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 the military invasion of Ukraine and Russia’s desire to assimilate Ukraine […]
23 August 2024
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 with the Italian real estate registry where they confirmed that as […]
17 August 2024
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 Russo-Ukrainian War, Japan has had a decisive position on the support […]
15 August 2024
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. Additionally, the patriotic feelings and deeds of the Ukrainian people as […]
8 August 2024
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 time, and the only thing that’s new is that this is […]
7 August 2024
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 the false impression that the Nazis, who ruled Germany at the […]
4 August 2024
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 it have troops deployed. NATO is assisting Ukraine and providing support […]
3 August 2024
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 as the post claims. Truthmeter tried to find such a statement […]
30 July 2024
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 it was a recent discussion between Macron and Zelenskyy and, on […]
