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“Faktoje” wins the legal battle against most state institutions in Albania in the “Invoices” case
The Administrative Court of Albania decided that the 8 highest state institutions, namely the Presidency, the Parliament of Albania, and several ministries, would provide Faktoje, the fact-checking website in Albania, with information and invoices about the official trips that heads of institutions took abroad. Decisions were made fairly quickly, despite the challenges caused by the pandemic across the system,...
NRK: International Fact-Checking Network nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
The former leader of the Liberal Party of Norway, Trine Skei Grande considers that fact checking has become so important that it deserves to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the portal for critical thinking and media literacy CriThink informs .
In times when false news are spreading more rapidly than ever and when we are strongly demonizing other people's...
2021 through the prism of Kremlin disinformation
The end of 2021 is approaching, but it seems that the pro-Kremlin disinformation will not end. Last year, EUvsDisinfo added 2,700 new examples of pro-Kremlin disinformation to its database. This is what they wrote:
Ukraine remains a major target of pro-Kremlin disinformation
About a third of all examples of pro-Kremlin disinformation in 2021 collected by EUvsDisinfo were aimed at Ukraine.
Amid escalating,...
Young people claim they can recognize false news, but they believe the disinformation about COVID-19
Around three quarters (74%) of the people in North Macedonia that responded to the questions at the online poll for youngsters have answered they can recognize false news. Twenty-one percent (21%) have never thought that certain news is false, while the remaining 5% have responded that they cannot recognize false news.
The online polls for young people were carried out...
Truthmeter.mk: Only Ekaterina Zaharieva sees equality between late Yugoslav President Tito and Hitler
The historical facts state that Josip Broz Tito was the organizer and the leader of the partisan movement in Yugoslavia starting from 1941 until the end of WWII. Without a doubt, his rule was undemocratic, there were weaknesses and could be criticized, but it is absurd to compare him to Hitler. And even if Tito was really the harshest...
Zaev: “Stop Disinformation” one of the 10 priorities of the government of North Macedonia in 2021
Zoran Zaev, the Prime Minister of North Macedonia informed today that among the 10 priorities of the Government's "Action 21 - Implementing European Standards at Home," that the Government of North Macedonia will be working on the next year is the fight against disinformation and preventing the damages caused by the false news.
As part of the priority objective "Stop...
Prime Minister Zaev: Disinformation spreads hatred and I expect bolder steps from the Association of Journalists
North Macedonia's Prime Minister Zoran Zaev is expecting bolder steps from the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) in the fight against disinformation and its spread in the media. These not only spread hatred, but also have a detrimental effect on the honor and dignity of individuals and also damage country's interests and wreck or derail its strategies.
"From what...
The experts are clear: Existence of plan for monitoring COVID-19 vaccine’s side effects doesn’t mean it is unsafe
The US Food and Drugs Administration published a list of medical conditions that will be monitored during the vaccination process with the anti-COVID-19 vaccine, and not a list of the side effect that have already happened, reacted the medical experts in North Macedonia when a video was published on Facebook by journalist Boban Nonkovikj that spreads disinformation about the...
Hate speech and harrasment campaign against Metamorphosis staff continues with impunity: “Should we shoot them or bring funeral wreaths to their homes?”
"Here is the cancer of the society," "slowly we are completing the list, information is arriving from all sides and we already have their home addresses," "poor bastards, they don't know they will be erased too, and very quickly," "should we shoot them or bring funeral wreath to their homes," "Macedonians, spit on them in public..." "Get to know...
E-Society: Journalists lost the trust of the general public, which leaves room for the disinformation
Journalism is at the crossroads today, with the mounting risk of being forced to withdraw from the place called "The Noise" and where it can't think. These are places where the journalists can be manipulated to spread fake news, places that were created to spread fake news, in order to discredit the journalists. This was pinpointed today by Associate...
Truthmeter: The coronavirus is a virus, not a bacteria!
A manipulation about the coronavirus and the COVID-19 was made with the publication of a Facebook post written in Macedonian, with claims that the real culprit is not a virus, but a bacteria, but also that the disease can be treated with Aspirin only, writes Truthmeter.mk in its latest analysis.
The author of this manipulation i.e. the disinformation that was...
Macedonian Journalist Associations urge the Ministry of Interior and the Public Prosecution to act upon hate speech towards journalists and civil society organizations
The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM), the Macedonian Independent Syndicate of Journalists and Media Workers (ISJMW), and the Council of Media Ethics of Macedonia (CMEM), most strongly condemned the hate speech that we were witnessing in the past several days against a number of journalists and one civil society organization. They called upon the state authorities and institutions,...
Journalist associations condemn the hate speech in social networks to Metamorphosis Foundation’s personnel
The Council of Media Ethics of Macedonia (CMEM), the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM), the Macedonian Independent Syndicate of Journalists and Media Workers (ISJMW), and the Macedonian Institute for Media (MIM) condemn the hate speech against the personnel of the civil society organization Metamorphosis, which was spread in the social networks with the publication of an article "(PHOTO)...
The claim that Metamorphosis employees delete content from Facebook is defamation
On 12 November 2020, a text entitled “(PHOTO) These are the people who delete content from Facebook in Macedonia!” was published on the website www.lider.com.mk, which lists several false claims that can be characterized as defamation.
Among other things, the controversial article contains a collage of photos of some of Metamorphosis Foundation employees, and the title reads that these are...
Disinformation wasn’t recognized on time as a threat to democracy
Certain civil society organizations in the Balkans, such as the Metamorphosis Foundation, almost a decade ago have started to analyze the effects of disinformation, spins, and propaganda, but these issues weren't recognized then as serious threats to democracy. The Government doesn't have an exclusive place in the fight with the spread of disinformation, conspiracy theories, and manipulations, but in...
Decline of critical thinking and rise of disinformation, propaganda, and hate speech
"The Critical Thinking for Mediawise Citizens - Crithink" project, implemented by Metamorphosis Foundation and Eurothink with the support from the European Union, as part of the Media Literacy Days in North Macedonia, yesterday held a public panel discussion on the results of research on media literacy and critical thinking conducted in the previous year.
"The worsened financial situation of the...
Keith Brown: Critical thinking demands recognition of one’s own blinkers, prejudices and areas of ignorance
“Balkan history has been shaped by the territorial ambitions and disputes of the last century, and so has become a zero-sum game; it also has quasi-religious aspects, insofar as current debates reveal an implicit concern with purity and pollution underlying accusations around loyalty and betrayal. Grievances and disputes escalate; and (to pursue the game metaphor) there is no mechanism,...
Macedonian magazine that published study about existence of a black hole in the middle of the Earth is no longer part of PubMed Central
The Macedonian science magazine "Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences“ (OAMJMS) is no longer part of the free archive of magazines for biomedical and life sciences at the PubMed Central® – U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM), as was announced on the National Library's web page. In the archive which can be accessed online,...
Next year Skopje will host the biggest NATO conference for public relations and fighting disinformation
Around 500 communications experts from all NATO member countries will participate in the biggest allies conference for public relations that next year should take place in Skopje, announced the Defense Minister Radmila Shekerinska - Jankovska yesterday.
"The plans for NATO's communications with the general public, the fight against false news, and attacks will be built here," stressed Shekerinska.
If the pandemic...
Will a new US TV series on the ‘Macedonian teens who helped elect Trump’ perpetuate a tired cliché?
The so-called “Macedonian teenagers” who set up networks of fake news sites in the lead-up to the 2016 United States election continue to turn a profit — not so much for themselves anymore, but for producers looking to capitalize on the exaggerated trope, Global voices reports.
To recap: In 2016, a group of Macedonians from the city of Veles set...
