Counter-spin: Sulejman Rexhepi through a spin ended in hate speech
There isn’t a single nation that can be characterized as “wild animals”. There is no such nation, a nation “without an identity” or a “heartless nation”. Stereotypes, insults and chauvinist statements! And to this instance of hate speech, Rexhepi arrived through twisting yet another...
The New York Times misrepresents opposition candidate in North Macedonia presidential elections
In its otherwise correct report on the outcome of presidential elections in Macedonia,Тhe New York Times has published a misleading information about how the opposition candidate became a candidate in the first place.
In the article “Supporter of North Macedonia Name Change Wins Presidency” NYT...
Truthmeter: Mickoski declares electoral victory with less votes than his opponent
After the State Election Commission announced the preliminary results from the first round of voting in the presidential election, the leader of the opposition VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, declared an electoral victory, which is basically an untruthful claim for the simple reason that the numbers...
“Vistinomer”: During election campaigns, they cannot boast of infrastructure success
The statement by the President of the Government, Zoran Zaev announcing a tender for March the 29th for the purchase and installation of new electrostatic filters in REK Bitola, Vistinomer.mk assessed as "inconsistent".
"The investment is estimated at 20.4 million euros, funds that the company...
Vuk Velebit: Serbian press more biased than Russian “Sputnik”
In Serbia, manipulation and misinformation on the part of pro-regime TV stations is part of everyday life. A major problem is the lack of information and the Government's intention to manipulate public opinion through its TV stations and discredit political opponents.
Vuk Velebit is an...
Pappas: Prespa Agreement was plagued with fake news
Fake news surrounding the Prespa Agreement was the main topic at a press conference held by the Government today, where Minister of Information Society and Administration, Damjan Manchevski and his Greek counterpart, Minister of Digital Policies, Telecommunications and Media, Nikos Pappas signed a Memorandum of...
Bulgarian and Serbian media prematurely change the name of Macedonia
While reporting on Saturday and yesterday about the vote in Macedonian Parliament, where four constitutional amendments were adopted, which, among other things, Macedonian MPs accepted the change of the name of the Republic of Macedonia, most of the media and some news agencies in...
Bulgarian media are resurrecting a nationalist myth by resurrecting the “Bloody Christmas” of 1945 in Macedonia
On Monday, Christmas day in Macedonia, a large part of the Bulgarian media recalled the so-called “Bloody Christmas” of January 7, 1945, when “1200 Bulgarians” were killed in the present territory of the Republic of Macedonia or the then Federal Democratic Republic of Macedonia.
For...
Top 5 cases of disinformation on the Special Prosecutor’s Office in 2018
As of its establishing until today, there are numerous false news, manipulations and disinformation related to the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office, especially about the three public prosecutors, who led the press conferences where investigations and indictments were announced and reviewed and elaborated by the...
TOP 5 2018 CounterSpins: The main spinning topics
To choose five spins that were unspinned in our article “Kontraspin” is quite a small number for everything that happened throughout 2018, in which the truth was twisted. The slogans “we do not give the name” or “you sold the name”, was the major...
Top 5 cases of disinformation on the Referendum of September 30
Since the announcement of the referendum until it was held there was a lot of information in the public on its type, who will support it, who will boycott it, whether the census will be reduced and so on. Many fake news and disinformation...
Top 5 cases of disinformation about the Prespa Agreement
On 17.06.2018, in the village of Nivici (Psarades) on the Greek coast of Prespa Lake, the foreign ministers of Macedonia and Greece, Nikola Dimitrov and Nikolaos Kotzias, have signed the “FINAL AGREEMENT FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF THE DIFFERENCES AS DESCRIBED IN THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS 817...
TOP 5 greatest manipulations in 2018 regarding Macedonian membership in NATO
The aspirations of Republic of Macedonia for NATO membership are an effort and top strategic priority since the country independence. They are a constant subject to manipulations in the public in the endless struggle between the two largest political parties in the country (SDSM...
Top 5 cases of disinformation on the escape of Gruevski
From the entire range of disinformation about the escape of Gruevski on November 11, we have chosen the following five as the biggest i.e. most flagrant ones when it comes to their mendacity, especially since they are a product of someone’s imagination, without any...
Transparency International still measuring corruption under VMRO-DPMNE rule
In the speech delivered during the third protest of VMRO-DPMNE (12 December 2018) in front of the building of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia for the party members and fans, the party’s president Hristijan Mickoski made the following manipulative and untruthful statement,...
