No massive farmers protests in the Netherlands this year
Photo: Farmer protests in the Netherlands. © Frank Magdelyns, 22nd June 2022
Dutch farmers organized massive protests last year, but not this year. Fact-checkers from the Netherlands told Truthmeter that protests were organized in 2023, but none could be compared to the huge protests and...
Counterspin: Levica spins that Macedonia is involved in repression of the Serbs in Kosovo
Photo: Ministry of Defense of North Macedonia
Responding to the government’s decision to send 31 members of ARM to Kosovo for a period of six months, Levica is spinning that KFOR is a suppressive force that frequently uses excessive force against the Serbs and that...
False claim that the film “Barbie” is banned in Serbia, accompanied by an altered photograph
Photo: Screenshot
Nowhere can one find information that the film “Barbie” is banned in Serbia. A map of Great Albania does not appear in the film at all, neither is there a map without North Macedonia – as suggested by the post as the reason...
The coronavirus is not a hoax; Russia is the one that started the war
This post shares two pieces of disinformation at the same time. The first one is that the coronavirus is a hoax, and the second one is that someone is waging war on Russia. The coronavirus, however, is not a fabrication, and it is Russia...
No Unification between Russia and Belarus
Photo: Kremlin.ru
The post carries a false statement by Peskov disinforming that some kind of unification will happen between Russia and Belarus. Our check showed that neither Peskov made a statement claiming that Putin’s address from 26th June will determine the fate of Russia, nor...
Facebook bans nazi and antisemitic sontents
Not only Facebook doesn’t say that “Hitler was a good man, a democrat fighting for rights”, as the post claims, but it also sanctions such narratives and fabrications. Regarding the malicious statement that ”it is not by accident” that ”Zelenskyy was tuned to perform...
Bogus statements on elections attributed to Zelenskyy
Contrary to the statement in the post we are fact-checking, Zelenskyy did not say that elections in Ukraine will not take place until some kind of a great reset of the world takes place. It is also not true that he admitted in a...
Prigozhin’s Rebellion and the Collapse of Kakhovka Dam – the Main Disinformation Topics in June
Police vehicles and passers-by in Rostov on 24 June 2023, during the Wagner Group Rebellion. Photo: fargoh on Wikimedia Commons
Three events became the root of foreign-sourced information and disinformation spread in North Macedonia in June – the collapse of Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine, the...
Deepfake of a pretended conversation between Hovenier and Kurti
On June 26th, an audio recording was posted on Twitter, claiming to be a conversation between the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, and the American Ambassador Hovenier, regarding the arrest of Serbs in Kosovo. The news is false, and it was also debunked by...
Media Narratives about EU as a Factor of Increased Russian Influence in North Macedonia
When assessing the influence that throws North Macedonia off the tracks from the proclaimed process of democratic development directed towards adopting the values of the European Union (EU) and EU accession, one cannot ignore the manner in which Macedonian media present the contribution of...
Intelligence Agency: We Will be a Target for Disinformation related to Constitutional Amendments, Church Issue and Elections 2024
The fight against disinformation should not be seen as a threat to the freedom of expression or censorship, because it is not a matter of naively publishing news. On the contrary, disinformation campaigns are organized by the State and directed towards manipulating public opinion...
Fight against Disinformation Demands Partnership between Institutions and Civil Society
Electronic disinformation is spreading and no-one is immune to that. They present a threat to society. The fight against disinformation demands partnership between the institutions and the civil society. This was stressed on today’s conference “Building Social Resilience to the Harmful Effects of Disinformation...
Disinformation Will Not Disappear – Creators Must be Exposed
It is high time to turn the recommendations into actions and to know exactly which actors in society have a role in the fight against disinformation - to recognize who is the enemy, the creators of disinformation, and to understand the goal behind the...
Old Article Manipulates that Russia has Withdrawn from WHO and WTO
Russia is still an active Member-State of both the World Health Organization and the World Trade Organization. The Russian Parliament has neither considered nor voted on an initiative to withdraw the membership from the two major global organizations, nor has such a thing been...
When Did Russia Return among the Top Ten Economies in the World – If at All?
In the first part of June, some of the Macedonian language media reported that Russia returned on the list of the Top 10 economies for the first time after 2014. Rarely did the news reported on the portals specify their sources. However, after fact-checking...
Mel Gibson is not making a documentary on child sex trafficking in Ukraine
Photo: Screenshot - Twitter
Mel Gibson is not making a documentary on child sex trafficking. The founder of a non-profit organization in Utah dealing with child sex trafficking, previously suggested the actor to provide initial support for a documentary, but he confirmed for Associated Press...
There is no evidence that Ukraine bombed Kakhovka Dam
Photo: Screenshot
– In conditions when both Ukraine and Russia are accusing each other for demolishing the dam, and when investigations are being announced.
– The fact is that Ukraine did not have access to the dam and that it was under the control of Russian...
The claim that USA is involved in deliberate spreading of the bird flu is Russian disinformation narrative
Transmission electron micrograph of influenza A virus, late passage…CDC/Dr. Erskine Palmer, 1981
By carefully looking at everything that was published on this topic up to date, one can clearly see that claiming that the Pentagon was deliberately infecting birds in the current war in Ukraine...
Manipulative post twists the truth – Ukraine is defending itself from Russia, not fighting at the “whim of London”
The post claiming that Ukraine is at war with Russia because of the whim of London and that Orban is Ukraine’s greatest friend because only he insisted on negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow for stopping the war is untrue and manipulative on several grounds,...
Missing children from Cleveland cannot be compared with those taken from Ukraine
Photo: Erik Drost on Wikimedia Commons
The missing children from Cleveland and those taken from Ukraine cannot be compared at all. The context and circumstances are totally different. The circumstances of the children from Cleveland have not been clarified yet and there is no indication...
