Contrary to the disinformation that they are childless, most of the European leaders have children
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A Facebook post falsely claims that the leaders of EU member states have no offspring. A Truthmeter fact-check, however, proved that most of the prime ministers and presidents of EU Member-States have children, including the President of the European Commission, Ursula...
Zelensky is not implementing “extremist regime of ethnic cleansing and genocide”
Ukraine is a republic with a presidential-parliamentary system of government, which is defined within the Constitution from 1996. Just before Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow falsely accused Ukraine of genocide against Russian-speaking citizens in the Donbas region. Putin used this narrative to...
America is tarnished by disinformation about the wars in Ukraine and Israel cooked up in the “Russian kitchen”
Photo: Screenshot of the video in the FB post
The Ukrainian authorities denied the claim that their country was providing arms to Hamas. On Monday (09.10.2023), the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Agency posted on its official Facebook page accusations that Russia launched a disinformation campaign related...
Social media under the lens of fact-checkers
“Even Vlora Çitaku has a Serbian passport!” “Mega scandal, Srpska Lista leader Goran Rakić has an intimate meeting on a yacht,” “Business loans up to 50,000 euros.” These are just a few examples of the disinformation shared on Facebook this year.Disinformation published in the...
Russia’s broadcasting hub in the Balkans
By Ardit Kika
Daily editions of Serbian pro-government tabloids such as Novosti, Alo, and Srpski Telegraf can be found in the shops and kiosks of Serb-majority municipalities in Kosovo from Zubin Potok to Gračanica. These newspapers not only support and reflect the policies of Serbian...
Doctored CNN Video Used To Claim That Western Media Lie
A video that went viral was edited to look like the featured CNN correspondent and her team were receiving instructions from a director on how to make the military conflict scene look more dramatic and more authentic. The original video without the supposed “instructions”...
Video of the Caged Children was Made Before the Attack on Israel by Hamas
The video is made before the latest wave of war-crimes and violence in the Middle East. The disputed video is not related to the current situation between Hamas and Israel and does not show victims of the war in the Middle East. The video...
Biden Did Not Say He Was Born in Israel
The claim that Biden was born in Israel was shared in an article of the Russian State News Agency TASS, published on 18 October 2023. The article states that the spokesperson of the Foreign Affairs Ministry Maria Zakharova stated that Biden claimed to be born...
Heaps of lies about the war in Ukraine, spiced up with “The Great Reset”
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The post falsely claims that the war in Ukraine was initiated by the collective West, linking that with the “Great Reset”, in which the Jews allegedly have a role to play. The fact is that Russia initiated the war in Ukraine and that...
It is Not True That CNN Reduced the Media Coverage of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
CNN follows the Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine with direct presence of its own teams and informs from the field about the situation in Ukraine every day. That did not change even after the new conflict shook the world. Truthmeter analyzed CNN’s coverage from...
The West did not desire war in Ukraine and Israel
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Western countries did not vote against the “resolution for stopping military actions and attacks between Israel and Palestine”, as the post claims, they just did not support Russia’s resolution to condemn violence and terrorism of civilians, because it did not mention HAMAS attacks...
A Video Does Not Show Egyptians Carrying Food and Water on their Backs for the Palestinians in Gaza
The video is not related to the current situation between HAMAS and Israel. Foreign fact-checkers claim that the video is older and does not relate to a humanitarian response to the blockade imposed by Israel from October 2023. For the first time this video...
Provocative Poster with Iranian Hypersonic Missile in Tehran Is Not Recent – It Dates Back to June
The photograph of a large poster in Tehran showcasing an Iranian hypersonic missile was not taken recently. Although the accompanying post claims the photograph shows a recent even in Iran’s capital, the photograph’s origins can be traced to June of this year, several months...
UN Charter Does Not Give Russia the Right to Attack Ukraine
Articles 106 and 107 of the UN Charter do not give Russia the right to attack Ukraine, or any of the other countries listed on the post, for its “attempts to revive Nazism”, as the post claims. Article 107 is no longer relevant since enemy...
It Is Not True that Russia Does Not Bomb Inhabited Places
The post we are fact-checking claims that Russia does not bomb inhabited places. It is a fact that Russia, on several occasions, has targeted inhabited places and hundreds of civilians, including women and children, were killed, writes Truthmeter.mk.
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Black Flag Erected on a Mosque Is Not a Call for War and Revenge
The black flag holds a special place in Islamic history and tradition. Unlike the incorrectly presented claims on social media, the black flag is not a call to arms, conflict or revenge. Raising a black flag in a mosque represents a solemn expression of...
The video of a convoy stuck at Rafah border crossing is from May 2021
Photo: Screenshot from the video
The video clip shared on this Facebook post is not from 2023, but more than two years old. As Reuters’ fact-checkers specify, the video with the Egyptian aid convoy is from May 2021, not from 2023, writes Truthmeter.mk.
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Biden’s Administration is not providing military aid to Hamas
The USA and Biden’s administration are not financing Hamas. The USA is sending humanitarian assistance for the civilians in Gaza, but it does not go to the terrorist organization that has several financiers, out of which the main is Iran. The USA declared Hamas...
Manipulation: NATO Does Not Evacuate Civilians from Israel
NATO is not involved in the evacuation of citizens of three member states, including citizens of North Macedonia. That obligation was taken over by each of the governments separately. The “Air Serbia” flight evacuating Macedonian citizens from Israel was paid from the Budget of...
Practicing Christianity is allowed in Israel
Photo: Government of the Republic of North Macedonia
The post omits the context because it does not state that this draft law has not been adopted and does not constitute a legal act in the state of Israel. Failure to provide this information creates a...
