Truthmeter: It Is Not True That Russia Is Not Shelling Civilian Buildings and That the Mariupol Footage Is Fake
The claim of the Russian ambassador to North Macedonia, Sergey Bazdnikin, that the Russian armed forces do not shell civilian buildings and that the footage from Mariupol is fake, seems strange and at least sounds unreasonable in a situation where numerous world and domestic...
Truthmeter: Covid Disinformation as Dangerous as the Coronavirus
It is not uncommon for narratives about COVID-19 vaccines to be spread on social media, which do not only undermine the confidence in their effectiveness but also contain conspiracy theories, i.e. unsubstantiated, unfounded claims about a small group of “villains” wanting to destroy the...
Kremlin Deception Weapons: 7 Things You Need to Know About RT and Sputnik
The European Union has approved sanctions against the Kremlin deception weapons: Sputnik and RT. Their broadcasting activities were immediately suspended in the EU until the Kremlin stopped its aggression against Ukraine and until Russia stopped carrying out disinformation and information manipulation activities against the EU...
Tuneva: In Military Conflicts We Need to Be Careful When Following Social Networks
In wars and conflicts, the use of disinformation is another tactic – not only the fighters on the ground are at war, but also the citizens and institutions that “place their truth” and thus think that they have said things as they are. However,...
Truthmeter: Nothing Can Justify the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
One of the ways to insert influence, which is hard to notice ad become increasingly aggressive since the beginning of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, is to compare, equate and justify the war, writes Truthmeter.mk.
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Jashari for “Sloboden Pecat”: There Are Actors with Malicious Agendas who Continue to Radicalize Various Groups in Our Country
The director of the Metamorphosis Foundation, Bardhyl Jashari, in a statement for “Sloboden Pecat” stated that North Macedonia has very low media education, fertile ground for conspiracy theories, distrust in institutions, declining quality of journalism and many sources of disinformation as well as various...
The war in Ukraine and its reverberations in Kosovo
For more than two decades, Kosovo has been a contentious issue between the West and Russia. During the 1990s, Russia openly supported Serbia despite the fact that the Serbian state had launched and waged a number of wars in the Balkans, including the last war...
Counterspin: Contrary to Bujar Osmani’s Statements, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Was Supplied With Russian Fuel the Day before the War in Ukraine
On March 7, RNM Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani agreed with his Ukrainian colleague on TV21 that “Russian oil is the blood of Ukraine,” adding that “the purchase of Russian gas is financing the Russian army.” However, although he was informed about the exact day...
Counterspin: Todor Petrov Spins On the Existence of Biological Weapons Laboratories in Ukraine
The post by the WMC and Todor Petrov that the United States owns bio-labs in Ukraine, which has become very viral and popular on social media, especially on those channels where disinformation and speculation about the Russian invasion of Ukraine are shared on a...
Serbian tabloids on war in Ukraine
Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as expected, is the topic that has caused the most media attention in the past few weeks. The tabloid media in Serbia are no exception, in which the course of the war, since its beginning, on February 24, 2022, has...
Kessler: Disinformation is Putin’s powerful tool in Ukraine
Giovanni Kessler is an Italian prosecutor who worked in the office of famous Sicilian prosecutor Paolo Borsalino in 1995. In 1998-1999 he was appointed as Deputy Head of the OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission in Pristina, in charge of Police and Justice matters. From 2001-2006...
Propaganda: Serbian Actors Portrayed as War Heroes in the Ukraine War
The use of Serbian and Yugoslav artworks intended for the big and small screen is one of the more shocking propaganda tricks in the parallel battle for Ukraine. The BBC opened the topic, Serbian media reported, followed by domestic media, writes Truthmeter.mk.
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Bexheti: An Alternative to the Markets after the Invasion of Ukraine will be Found, but There Is No Alternative to the Loss of Human Lives
Engineered news is circulating on social networks and in some media after the invasion of Ukraine, which is done with a certain intention, to spread fog, said in an interview with Truthmeter academician Abdylmenaf Bexheti. According to him, the losses due to the Russian-Ukrainian...
Analysis of the narrative about the war in Ukraine
Serbian tabloids on war in Ukraine
Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as expected, is the topic that has caused the most media attention in the past few weeks. The tabloid media in Serbia are no exception, in which the course of the war, since its beginning,...
Truthmeter: There Is No Confirmation That Putin Is Suffering From Colon Cancer
There is no official confirmation, from any country, of Putin’s state of health. The Kremlin has not commented on the Russian president’s health and has not responded to these latest allegations, which have emerged since the outbreak of the conflict. In this case, the...
Truthmeter: There Is No US-Funded Biological Weapons Development Program in Ukraine
There is no evidence that the Ukrainian government ordered the eradication of anthrax, cholera and other infectious diseases on the day Putin invaded Ukraine. It is also not true that there are US-funded biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine. On the contrary, the laboratories that...
Truthmeter: Scene from a 2017 Movie, Falsely Presented As a Scene from the Current Invasion in Ukraine
The video is actually a clip from a movie shot in 2017, and not Ukrainian soldiers going to war. The video is from the movie “The War of Chimeras”. The film documents the story of a young couple during the battle of Ilovaysk, which...
Counterspin: Nobody Gave Bacev the Right to Speak on Behalf of the Macedonian People about the 2001 Conflict
The day Russia launched a military aggression against Ukraine in order to occupy it, the portal Index, which operates in North Macedonia, published two video clips from an interview with the leader of the pro-Russian party in the country “United Macedonia”, Janko Bacev, in...
Truthmeter: “Global Fascists” Are Not Destroyed in Ukraine, but Civilians and Children Are Killed
Contrary to the absurd claim in the post that “the Russian army is destroying the global fascists and their henchmen”, in the war in Ukraine that Russia started on February 24, soldiers are suffering, but also innocent civilians, including many children. According to the...
Truthmeter: Using A Video Game Is Portrayed the “Ghost of Kyiv”
The video shared in the post we are reviewing is not from a “mysterious pilot”, but is a sequence from a video game “Digital Combat Simulator World”. A spokesman for the publishing company told Reuters that the material was indeed from the video game,...
