20 June 2023
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 the data, Truthmeter derived the conclusion that the Macedonian public – […]
12 June 2023
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, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk and Meta.mk, we […]
9 June 2023
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 of an established pattern or tendency that they all disappeared […]
9 June 2023
Tank row in surburban Kyiv. Photo: Wikipedia Back in December 2021, Western leaders called upon Russia to calm the tensions and promised to support Ukraine in case of any kind of threat from Moscow. On 24 February 2022, Russia – not the Western elites – performed complete military invasion in Ukraine and started a war […]
9 June 2023
This article by Ardit Kika was originally produced for and published by Kosovo 2.0 as part of Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Hub project. It has been republished here with permission. Serbia, Russia and China are the main disseminators of disinformation in Kosovo and about Kosovo. Serbian-speaking audiences are the main targets of disinformation from Serbian […]
7 June 2023
Photo: Screenshot from the video It is not true that Graham said “The Russian are dying. It’s the best money we have ever spent”, while the clip claiming such a thing has been wrongfully edited. A longer version of the conversation, published by the Ukrainian Government, followed by Reuters, inter alia, shows that both segments […]
6 June 2023
Photo: Screenshot from the video There were also attempts previously on social networks to accuse Ukraine of mobilizing children by using videos of young-looking boys. But, that is not true – according to Ukrainian laws, only adult persons can be conscripted by the Army, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk and Meta.mk, we […]
6 May 2023
NATO neither started the military invasion, nor does it have troops in Ukraine. Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022 and Ukraine, as an independent country, has the right to defend itself and use available means of assistance from its friends. NATO is sending military aid to Ukraine without being a party to the war. The […]
5 May 2023
In the video with the post, analyst Gilbert Doctorow does not present a single source of evidence for his claim that during a missile attack of Russia, NATO generals hiding in a bunker in Ukraine were killed. His only attribution is the “Russians”. According to official Ukrainian sources, NATO bases are opened only on the […]
17 March 2023
The Russian Embassy in Skopje is a record-breaker when it comes to the number of Facebook posts. The country is of top regional interest of Kremlin – out of the whole Balkans, only the Russian diplomatic mission in Romania posts more frequently on Facebook. The hybrid war in North Macedonia by the Russian Secret Services […]
27 February 2023
The post disinforms that NATO is pushing Ukraine to fight to the last Ukrainian. This narrative undermines thousands of soldiers in Ukraine, including patriotic defence actions carried out to defend themselves from Russian aggression. It is not true that no more men are left so Zelenskyy is “sending women to be killed on the front”. […]
18 February 2023
We assess the post fact-checked as untrue. It is not true to claim that the earthquake was a geologically produced attack, that the diplomats were withdrawn due to the earthquake and that Turkey decided to leave NATO. As far as the false claims related to Covid vaccines and pandemic are concerned – as mentioned by […]
16 February 2023
The claim that Russia declared the Dollar invalid payment currency is out of context. There is lack of Dollars in cash in Russia hence the limit of Dollars that one can withdraw from the banks. Otherwise, in Russia, even before the military invasion, the payment currency that could have been used in the payment system […]
23 January 2023
The post claims that the reserves of the Central Bank of Russia increased by 5.5 billion Dollars within several days and that in the foreign currency reserve was 582 billion Dollars in January. What has been omitted in this post however, is that Russia cannot use more than half of these funds. Approximately 300 billion […]
14 December 2022
(This content is a translation of the original article in Macedonian, published on the 7th of December 2022) To minimize the negative effects of disinformation on democracy, we must jointly fight it. For that to happen, the institutions must be transparent and the media and the civil society must actively be checking and debunking disinformation. […]
26 September 2022
The photo in the post we are reviewing, which contains the Ukrainian flag, has been graphically altered and edited, to falsely represent that the flag is Ukrainian. The photo was taken next to the statue of Lenin in the Russian city of Novokuznetsk, next to the administrative building of this city in the Kemerovo region […]
31 August 2022
Ukrainian legislation prohibits the sale of agricultural land to foreigners and foreign-owned companies. This restriction can be lifted, but first, there must be a referendum, and no referendum was held for this purpose in Ukraine. Therefore, it is not true that three large American multinational companies bought over 17 million hectares of Ukrainian agricultural land. […]
30 August 2022
The leader of the political party “United Macedonia”, Janko Bačev, shared on his Facebook profile a statement allegedly made by the former president of Cuba, Fidel Castro. However, even though Castro never said anything like Bačev claims, this post has gone viral with 180 shares and over 1,000 reactions, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the syndicating agreement […]
19 April 2022
At this year’s “DISICON – Information Integrity’s Role in Defending Democracy” conference, Filip Stojanovski, Metamorphosis Foundation’s Partnership and Resource Development Director, spoke about the foreign interventions in the process of undermining democracy, but also about Metamorphosis Foundation’s efforts in the fight against disinformation, writes Portalb.mk. Stojanovski stressed that the integrity of the information and the […]
24 January 2022
The claim of VMRO-DPMNE that the Government did not provide low gas prices, unlike “all governments in the region and the world” is a spin. The price of imported natural gas depends very little on the government’s negotiating capabilities, writes Truthmeter.mk. We republish below Truthmeter’s article under our syndication agreement: Author: Goran Lefkov The […]
