QAnon Propaganda for Satanizing NATO and EU
Two theses in this post – the one on ”the satanic NATO” and that on “the pedophile EU” – look too much alike to the disinformation propaganda spread by the Kremlin about the West, in the attempt to justify Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine....
Putin with two disinfo narratives from Vladivostok – The new weaponry and the USA are the villains, not Russia
Talking about new weaponry, international relations cases and mistakes made by Moscow – although those made by the USA were bigger – as well as about the Donald Trump case, the Russian President sent a variation of one and the same topic of two...
”The Macedonian Sun” cannot be on the BRICS currency, as BRICS has no currency
The banknote is symbolic. It was a present given by the Russian Ambassador in South Africa, Ilya Rogachev, to the Head of the Diplomatic Mission of the UAE, Mahash Saeed Alhameli. BRICS, an informal group of countries composed of the Federal Republic of Brazil,...
EU will not deport men aged 18-60 back to Ukraine
According to the European Commissioner, the EU will not deport anyone against their will. That is, Ukrainian men currently living in Europe are not at risk of forced deportation. Also, the European Union does not plan to restrict the entry of men from Ukraine,...
Manipulations about Rama’s statement – Bulgaria will not attack North Macedonia
The fact-checked post, with its fuzzy text and the accompanying photos, purposefully manipulates the statement of the Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, with the aim of creating a picture of some kind of military threat to North Macedonia from Bulgaria. Rama did not foresee...
The claim that Zelenskyy’s mother-in-law has a villa in Egypt is sheer disinformation
The owner of the company that runs the luxury resort in Egypt, Naguib Sawiris, tweeted that it was disinformation that Zelenskyy, or whoever from his family, purchased a property in his resort (the luxury resort managed by his company), and that the villa that...
America didn’t promise Russia that NATO would not enlarge
There is no treaty signed by the US, Europe, and Russia specifying that NATO will not enlarge. The idea of NATO expansion beyond Germany was not on the agenda in 1989, because the Warsaw Pact still existed. Mikhail Gorbachev confirmed it in an interview...
Prigozhin and his mysterious destiny – main disinformation highlight
Is he alive or did he really get killed in the plane crash on 23 August? This is the main public dilemma after the series of news and (dis)information related to the crash of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s company plane, in which he was flying at...
Recycled disinformation: The alleged pharmacist from Bulgaria “arrived” in North Macedonia three years after
The fabricated post spreading false information about the pharmaceutical industry, portraying it as unethical, immoral, lucrative and greedy, but at the same time depreciating trust in state institutions, is at least three years old and was imported from neighboring Bulgaria. There this disinformation was...
Aggeler’s scarf is a fashion accessory by designer McQueen and has nothing to do with Satanism
Photo: Screenshot from the video of the Macedonian Ministry of Internal Affairs
The scarf that Ambassador Aggeler is wearing is just a fashion accessory by the renowned world designer, Alexander McQueen, and is not sending out any hidden messages. This color-varied scarf has been seen...
A post spreads false information; Joe Biden did visit Maui
Photo: Screenshot from a video
Having interrupted his vacation in Nevada, the president of the USA, Joe Biden, visited Maui. He saw the damage inflicted by the terrifying fire that swallowed the island and claimed more than 100 victims. Evidence of his visit is the...
Zelenskyy is not son of Soros
Photo: president.gov.ua
Zelenskyy’s father is not George Soros, but Oleksandr Zelenskyy, a university professor and a computer scientist, President of the Cybernetics and Computer Hardware Department at the Kyiv Rih State University of Economics and Technology. Zelenskyy’s mother is Rima Zelenskyy, who worked as an...
The claim that depleted uranium ammunition is used in Krivolak is sheer disinformation
Krivolak, June 2019, from the drill “Decisive Strike 19”. Photo: mod.gov.mk
The claim that military drills with depleted uranium ammunition – which is carcinogenic – are taking place in the Krivolak military training range has not been confirmed and is not substantiated. This is an...
Ukraine has legally regulated surrogacy, not baby farms
Photo: Screenshot from the video
It is not true that the video calls upon Ukrainian women to transform their uteruses into baby-making machines. One can easily see in the original video that it is intended for foreign families concerned about the surrogacy process in wartime...
NATO is not sending weapons directly to Ukraine, and it has already sent aid to Slovenia for the floods
Photo: nato.int
Unlike the claim in the post, NATO is not sending weapons directly to Ukraine. NATO member-states individually are sending weapons and aid, together with other countries that are not NATO members, and that is clearly stressed on NATO’s website by Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg....
Putin is not a small child whо can be “lured” into attacking Ukraine
Opposed to the claims in the post we are fact-checking, Putin is the one who made a decision – completely unprovoked – to attack the territorial integrity of a sovereign country. In addition, Washington is constantly stressing that Russia can stop the war in...
A post manipulates by saying that the Ukrainian Church is not Orthodox and that the peace depends on that
A high 72 percent of the Ukrainians declare themselves Orthodox Christians. Therefore, Orthodox Christianity is predominant in Ukraine and it is not logical to bring something back when it is already there. In addition, the post manipulates by claiming that peace in Ukraine depends...
Lies about alleged people and organ trafficking in Ukraine are spread tendentiously and without evidence
Photo: Screenshot from the video
The claims about the alleged trafficking of people and organs in Ukraine are not substantiated with evidence and are based on arbitrary positions of the YouTuber Morris, known for spreading such disinformation in his show on previous occasions. This is...
Manipulative Facebook post justifying Russian invasion in Ukraine at all costs
The entire post is loaded with Russian narratives and manipulations aiming to spread propaganda and justify the Russian military aggression in Ukraine. Ukrainians are not brainwashed, as the post claims, and they are trying to defend their country from Russia. Russia is the one...
The man in the video is not Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but the dancer Pablo Acosta from Argentina
Photo: Screenshot of the video
Several foreign fact-checkers published that the video is not of Zelenskyy, but of Pablo Acosta. He is a dancer, teacher of dance, and choreographer from Argentina and he published the video himself on 1st June. On the platform, there are...
