Lies about alleged people and organ trafficking in Ukraine are spread tendentiously and without evidence
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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
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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...
Theft of up to 1,000 dollars is not nonpunishable in the USA
Proposition 47 adopted in 2014 in California, which is not applicable in all states of the US, reclassifies felony theft like shoplifting under 1,000 dollars, from an offense into a misdemeanor. That does not mean that one is not held responsible for such a...
NATO was not the instigator of the war in Ukraine
It is not true that NATO is instigating war and that its goal is to fight Russia at the expense of Ukrainian citizens. Such a narrative is part of the Russian propaganda that wants to present Ukraine as a vassal of the Western countries...
The strategic partners of North Macedonia congratulated us on our national holiday Ilinden
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The post we are fact-checking is spreading disinformation and is slandering the strategic partners of North Macedonia by calling them “enemies” and, furthermore, glorifying Russia. It is true that Russia congratulated us upon our national holiday Ilinden, but congratulations also came from the...
Petrovska never stated that she declares war on Russia
Had Petrovska ever said such a thing, all of the media would have reported it, both the national and the international media. But such a thing cannot be found in the online space, neither in writing nor in audio form. Indeed, had Petrovska stated...
Macron is not showing a Masonic symbol but the Eiffel Tower in sign language
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A six-year-old video was misused for spreading lies that French President Emmanuel Macron is publicly displaying a masonic symbol. The video was recorded on 16th May 2017, when Macron received the members of the International Olympic Committee visiting Paris –...
Nuland attacked with fabricated and insulting statement allegedly by Niger military junta
The alleged cynical statement about Ambassador Victoria Nuland shared in this Facebook post is fabricated. No official, established, relevant and credible medium has transmitted such a statement from the so-called Niger “revolutionary government” – that they did not want US money and even that...
An arbitrary claim that the new Niger authorities have stopped uranium and gold exports to France
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Reuters’s fact-checkers inform that until 2nd August – and according to our checks, also on 3rd August, when this fact-check has been written – there is no official information verified by the authorities of Niger, nor by those who carried out the coup...
It is not true that the West is plundering Ukraine’s historic heritage
There is no evidence in support of the claim about plundering and “kidnapping” Ukrainian cultural treasures. Such claims from the post were refuted by the Ukrainian authorities. The Ministry of Culture and Information Technologies of Ukraine stated that the claim about kidnapping Ukrainian sacred...
Video of prisoner swap presented as surrender of Ukrainian troops
The post is falsely claiming that the video shared is showing Ukrainian troops surrendering to Russian forces. The video-clipping is from prisoner swap between the Wagner Group and the Ukrainian Armed Forces from last May in Ukraine. At the time, the swap was confirmed...
Zelenskyy – Kremlin’s Most Important Disinformation Target
Never before has Kremlin’s propaganda machinery been concentrated on disseminating so many disinformation pieces about one person as is currently doing with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The constant inflow of lies about the Ukrainian President, spread on daily basis, shows that he is a thorn in...
NATO Summit, Cluster Bombs, Prigozhin and Poland – Focus on Disinfo-narratives in July
In July, in the Macedonian language media one could have read a few types of Russian narratives related to the state of affairs in Ukraine. Most dominant were those connected to the NATO Summit in Vilnius, the US-approved cluster ammunition for Ukraine, the destiny...
Civilians, not “military legitimate targets”, were hit in Russian missile attack of kramatorsk
The Russian missile attack of Kramatorsk was purposely executed on civilian buildings. During the attack of the pizzeria in Kramatorsk, 12 civilians were killed, and dozens injured. The fact that an American soldier was there eating does not make the building “legitimate military target”,...
The frog logo on food products has nothing to do with Bill Gates or the “Golden Billion”
The logo of the Rainforest Alliance is not the golden poison frog, but the red-eyed tree frog. The frog on the logo has a symbolic meaning of a bioindicator of healthy environment and has nothing to do with the “golden billion” – an old...
Imported ideological conflicts are intensified by the flood of disinformation
“Culture wars” or ideological conflicts between the left and the right-wing became a dominant topic in US political discourse. Both sides are trying to present their truth and viewpoint as the only right option, while “they, the others” are the strike of evil wanting...
SEC: Investing in “Solargroup” Has No Legal Protection
Considering the information received by the Securities and Exchange Commission as the regulator of the securities market in the country, especially due to the fact that those promoting the investment are not licensed brokers/investment advisers, including the fact that the promotion of the offer...
The trident is not a Nazi symbol, but part of the Ukrainian history
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Drawing a parallel between Zelenskyy and Hitler is a classical manipulation in the spirit of Russian propaganda. All this is done to justify the Russian aggression of sovereign Ukraine which is ongoing for more than a year. Zelensky is Jewish – his grandfather...
There is no billboard “No Zelensky, No War” in New York
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The video presented – as foreign fact-checkers found out – is not new, and was recorded before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At the moment, the building looks different from what we see in the video material, and the traffic...
