As part of its program for fighting disinformation and false news, which cross the borders quickly in the Balkans and very soon can be seen in the media of another state and sometimes in another language, Meta.mk has been reporting regularly about current affairs at similar services for checking facts and the fight against disinformation in the region i.e. starting from Croatia in the North and encompassing Greece in the South.
The Croatian service for checking facts and fighting disinformation Faktograf.hr has revealed one disinformation that has long circulated the social networks i.e. that the novel coronavirus COVID-19 is a biological weapon produced by the US and used against China and Italy. This was published by the Facebook page ran by Croatian political party “Promijenimo Hrvatsku“ (Let’s Change Croatia)
But, according to latest data, in USA there more than 3.600 infected persons and the contagion has caused a stock exchange crash in New York. Therefore this claim is very illogical, wrote Faktograf.hr.
