Misinformative headline about the “long-awaited agreement” between Kosovo and Serbia
On June 21, Kosovo and Serbia finalized the roadmap for the implementation of energy agreements in the four municipalities of northern Kosovo: North Mitrovica, Leposaviq, Zveçan and Zubin Potok. The roadmap is based on the 2013 agreement, which was reached in Brussels as part of Kosovo-Serbia dialogue,...
Kosovo authorities denounce Russia’s claim of ‘mercenaries killed from Kosovo’ as misinformation
Parallel to the continuation of war in Ukraine, the Russian Federation is aggressively engaging in disseminating false information, including in the region and Kosovo. Recently, the Ministry of Interior of Russia has published a list, where it is claimed that over 7,000 mercenaries from...
Did exports between Albania – China increase and what do experts say about Chinese influence?
Albania’s exports to China have marked in increase in 2022 by 67%. INSTAT official data, after being processed by Faktoje, showed China of “taking” ores, chromium, and copper concentrates from our country. Increase of export figures was recently announced even by the Chinese Ambassador...
How does the content of the Chinese blog platform reach the domestic media
In its articles, the web portal Webtribune often conveys information from a Chinese blog where content can be published by anyone, thus presenting the blog as a credible media source.
Readers reported several articles on Webtribune, which are based on using the same disinformation strategy...
There is not a Russian decision to “return” the NATO alliance to its borders from 1997
In their headlines, some web portals manipulatively presented the statement of a Russian deputy as an official decision of Russia.
On May 15, 2022, Webtribune published an article with the title claiming that “Russia has decided” to return NATO to its borders from 1997:
RUSSIA HAS DECIDED, AND...
The nuclear war put at the service of clicks and spreading fear
The potential use of nuclear weapons is often mentioned in the context of the war in Ukraine. As a rule, reporting on this topic is followed by sensationalist and manipulative headlines that try to attract clicks.
Early in the morning on February 24, 2022, the...
There is not a Russian decision to “return” the NATO alliance to its borders from 1997
In their headlines, some web portals manipulatively presented the statement of a Russian deputy as an official decision of Russia.
On May 15, 2022, Webtribune published an article with the title claiming that “Russia has decided” to return NATO to its borders from 1997:
RUSSIA HAS DECIDED, AND...
The nuclear war put at the service of clicks and spreading fear
The potential use of nuclear weapons is often mentioned in the context of the war in Ukraine. As a rule, reporting on this topic is followed by sensationalist and manipulative headlines that try to attract clicks.
Early in the morning on February 24, 2022, the...
Narrative Analysis – All president’s people: Russian commentators in Serbian media
As part of the program Regional Initiative to Combat Disinformation, we present you a new monthly analysis of fake news and disinformation narratives.
All president’s people: Russian commentators in Serbian media
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, part of the media in the Serbian...
Sbunker: Bomb threats, a concern for the security of the country
The wave of threats in the region with false bomb alerts has also affected Kosovo. Threatening messages from anonymous addresses were sent to the University, schools, airport and bus stations.
So far, no bomb has been found. But alarms spread panic, also challenging the capacities...
The parties became holders of public information, but remained insufficiently transparent
Three years after being covered by the Law on Free Access to Public Information, which made them holders of public information related to their financial operations, political parties are still not at a satisfactory level of transparency in terms of revenue and expenditure. However,...
Montenegro joins “Open Balkans” and Edi Rama does not deal with Kosovo and other misleading news about BiH
The initiative of the three countries of the Western Balkans, Serbia, Albania and Northern Macedonia, known as the "Open Balkans" continues to be one of the most controversial topics in Kosovo and the region. The last meeting of this initiative, which was organized in Ohrid,...
Meta.mk’s Deputy Editor-in-Chief Blazhevski on young people’s emigration from North Macedonia: We have strategies, their implementation is lacking
We should do more in North Macedonia if we want to lower the number of young people that are fleeing the country. I think we don't have problems when it comes to creating strategies for solving this problem, but the implementation has been lacking,...
Portalb.mk’s Editor-in-Chief Zylbeari: Fight against disinformation expands, we can counteract disinformation with coordinated actions
As fact-checkers, we have faced many attacks in our work, but that is our routine challenge. I wouldn't like to forecast how the war against the disinformation will end, I just see it as a hybrid war and it will step up. However, with...
Truthmeter’s Editor-in-Chief Petreski: Western Balkans a target of foreign disinformation campaigns; we are working on revealing them
The malign influences which utilize disinformation spreads in the Western Balkans have a regional nature, and, as a result, one disinformation is crossing the border from one country to another and then it returns to the country of origin in a very degenerated form,...
Russian and Serbian officials continue to deny the Recak Massacre
Even three months after Russia's aggression on Ukraine, misinformation statements by Russian and Serbian officials on Kosovo have continued. The latest one came from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who in an interview with "Sputnik" in Russia and broadcast by Serbian media has denied the Recak...
Jashari: Moscow the source of the Euroscepticism campaign in North Macedonia
One of the fake news campaigns in North Macedonia is aiming to increase the skepticism among the citizens regarding the European Union, said the Metamorphosis Foundation's Director Bardhyl Jashari in "Click Plus" on TV 21. In the show he spoke about the ways the...
Disinformation is a security problem, we should start working together to prevent consequences
The disinformation poses a threat to North Macedonia's security and all the factors in the society must work together to prevent the consequences. This, among other things, was said at the "Solutions and Next Steps - Recommendations for Joint Action" session of the "Dealing...
“Oil crisis”, INSTAT figures and importers: No room for panic
Russia and Ukraine remains the two main oil importers to the country, despite the war between them. Following alarms raised by importers as the country is in danger of not having oil in the market, INSTAT data processed by Faktoje showed that in the...
People in North Macedonia aware about disinformation, but counteracting this evil requires great efforts
The main actors in the process of counteracting the effects of the disinformation should be the institutions that are tasked with the creation of media policies, but also the media outlets and the journalists. Still, a systematic approach, with participation of several other factors...
