Tag: disinformation

According to the European Commissioner, the EU will not deport anyone against their will. That is, Ukrainian men currently living in Europe are not at risk of forced deportation. Also, the European Union does not plan to restrict the entry of men from Ukraine, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk and Meta.mk, we republish the text below:   We are...

The owner of the company that runs the luxury resort in Egypt, Naguib Sawiris, tweeted that it was disinformation that Zelenskyy, or whoever from his family, purchased a property in his resort (the luxury resort managed by his company), and that the villa that is mentioned is actually owned by an Egyptian family, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between...

The fabricated post spreading false information about the pharmaceutical industry, portraying it as unethical, immoral, lucrative and greedy, but at the same time depreciating trust in state institutions, is at least three years old and was imported from neighboring Bulgaria. There this disinformation was disseminated online back in 2020, when the Bulgarian National Television was included unlawfully. Such recycled...

Photo: Screenshot from a video Having interrupted his vacation in Nevada, the president of the USA, Joe Biden, visited Maui. He saw the damage inflicted by the terrifying fire that swallowed the island and claimed more than 100 victims. Evidence of his visit is the global media coverage, including video recordings from the event, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between...

Photo: Screenshot from the video It is not true that the video calls upon Ukrainian women to transform their uteruses into baby-making machines. One can easily see in the original video that it is intended for foreign families concerned about the surrogacy process in wartime conditions. The post presents surrogate mothers as exploited, although they give their written consent for...

A high 72 percent of the Ukrainians declare themselves Orthodox Christians. Therefore, Orthodox Christianity is predominant in Ukraine and it is not logical to bring something back when it is already there. In addition, the post manipulates by claiming that peace in Ukraine depends on religion, although religion is a stumbling block when it comes to Russia. The resolution...

Irena Visinska is a geopolitical analyst whose area of expertise is studies on hybrid threats to contemporary society and geopolitical trends in the Western Balkan region. Her attention is especially directed towards studying the disinformation flows and foreign propaganda, including the ramifications in the Balkan region thereafter. Meta.mk interviewed Visinska about her latest study ”Geopolitical perspective of disinformation flows...

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 of Prigozhin, including the narrative that Poland wanted to occupy parts of Ukraine that was...

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”, as claimed by Russia. The post is disseminating Russian propaganda that the target of the...

“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 to destroy humankind. These imported culture wars, with all of their intolerance for the opponent...

Photo: pixabay.com 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 and his three brothers were fighting against the Nazis. As a reminder, Ukraine banned the...

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 unrest in 2022. Dutch farmers do not protest because the Government wants to dislocate them...

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 for banning the movie in North Macedonia. The scene with Barbie standing in front of...

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 that started the war in an independent and sovereign country, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement...

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 did Putin announce any kind of unification with Belarus in his address. In his speech...

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 rebellion of Prigozhin and his Wagner mercenary group and the actual Russian economic power and...

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 the US Embassy itself. Furthermore, the audio recording attached to the photograph of Hovenier and Kurti is...

Written by Global Voices Central&Eastern Europe. Meta.mk republishes the original article, under the cooperation agreement with “Global Voices”:   Populist political forces across Europe have been utilizing homophobia and the stigmatization of LGBTQ+ people as a weapon of political influence for the last two decades. Many of these campaigns have mimicked, or were even helped by, the extreme right-wing circles from the US. After 2013,...

France had revealed an enormous Russian campaign whose aim was to undermine Western support for Ukraine, reported the French state agency Viginum, whose purpose is to fight foreign digital interference. “Engaging Russian embassies and cultural centres that were actively involved in reinforcing this campaign, including through the official social network profiles is just another illustration of the hybrid strategy applied...

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 and pressuring decision-makers. This is what, inter alia, the Director of the Intelligence Agency, Erold Musliu,...