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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...

The everyday fight for human lives in Tetovo Clinical Center (Photo gallery)

Everyday they wage a war for human lives. At the Clinical Center of Tetovo, the medical personnel is achieving the impossible for the patients that are hospitalized in the COVID-19 ward, helping them overcome this unfathomable sickness and return to their families.     Wishing to witness the situation of the patients that were hospitalized in this ward,...

Mirth reigns after Balkan Facebook Flat Earthers group takes a hit by trolling journalist

Bosnian journalist and blogger Mustafa Sejdinović caused a minor good will sensation in the post-Yugoslav part of the Balkans after he confessed to busting a Facebook group for Flat Earthers from the region. Sejdinović, who goes by the nickname Musa, explained how he infiltrated the group Ravna Zemlja / Flat Earth Balkan, devoted to promotion of flat-earth conspiracy theory, became...

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...

International Human Rights Day and their importance in building the post-Covid-19 world

Today is 10 December, the International Human Rights Day. On this day in 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first global document to articulate human rights and bring them to the forefront globally, as well as one of the greatest achievements of the United Nations. Moreover, the celebration of...

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...

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...

NATO’s Public relations center will be turned into a Center for Fighting Disinformation

The Defense Ministry of North Macedonia will turn its Regional Center for Public Relations (RSPR) into a regional NATO Center for Fighting Fake News and Disinformation. RSPR which is known under its acronym PARC (Public Affairs Regional Centre), since 2013 has been accredited by NATO as a partner center for education and training. "We shall specialize in the spirit of...

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...

Disinformation about Russian army entering the Belarus in order to quell the demonstrations

When the social networks and the chat services were flooded with videos containing military transporters and buses full of soldiers, claiming this is the Russian army that has either entered Belarus or "are about to enter" Belarus, the fact-checkers from Belarus have quickly debunked these claims as disinformation. As was stressed by Franak Viačorka, an analyst from Minsk, and a...

Facebook in partnership with Metamorphosis Foundation and Truthmeter launches a fact-checking program in North Macedonia

Today, Facebook announced that together with the Metamorphosis Foundation and Truthmeter, will launch a third-party fact-checking program in North Macedonia. Besides our country, Facebook is launching this program in other countries in the region: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia, while the existing program in Croatia will be expanded. As part of Facebook’s fight against misinformation, the company is collaborating...

Truthmeter.mk: The signs that Moscow is interfering in North Macedonia’s elections are no joke

The release of an old audio conversation between “Greta Thunberg” and the former Prime Miinister, as well as the top candidate for the next PM from the ruling party, Zoran Zaev at this moment has nothing to do with alleged pranks, but with the direct involvement of “Kremlin friends” in the RNM elections, writes Truthmeter.mk   There is a big difference...

Παραπληροφορίες για τον Covid-19: Η ιταλική έκθεση ,,απογυμνώνει,, την Κίνα και την Ρωσία.

Σχεδόν όλοι αυτήν την στιγμή συμφωνούμε με το γεγονός ότι η πανδημία άλλαξε δραματικά τις ζωές μας για πάντα και μάλιστα, στις περισσότερες περιπτώσεις προς το χειρότερο. Η απομόνωση όμως, όπως και το γεγονός ότι ακόμη δε μπορούμε να απολαύσουμε και να επιστρέψουμε στις συχνότερες συνήθειες που την προ πανδημίας εποχή τις θεωρούσαμε ως κάτι σταθερό και απαράλλαχτο, μας...

COVID – 19 disinformation: China and Russia laid bare by the Italian report

Almost everyone at this point agrees that the pandemic has dramatically altered our lives forever - for bad in many cases; but the isolation, the fact that we still cannot enjoy and tend to the most common habits that we mostly took for granted before, has made us think thoroughly about our position and how vulnerable the humans can...

Srpski ministar Zlatibor Lončar hvali se transparentnošću, lokalne vlasti ćute

U okviru svog programa za borbu protiv dezinformacija i lažnih vesti, koje na Balkanu vrlo lako prelaze granice i brzo se pojavljuju u medijima druge zemlje, a ponekad i na drugom jeziku, Meta.mk redovno prenosi aktuelne novosti srodnih servisa za proveru činjenica i borbu protiv dezinformacija u regionu, odnosno od Hrvatske na severu do Grčke na jugu. Lažne informacije srpskog...

How fake news gained an unexpected ally

The fake news and sophisticated disinformations phenomenons are now extensively recognized as a substantial problem that even the most well-developed societies continue to face. The appearance of COVID-19 pandemic has actualized the discussion on this problem, after people, non-formal organizations, or even governments, are reported to have been behind the use of misinformation to flourish amidst the panic and push...

Six false statements by Serbian government officials on COVID-19

Global Voices published an English version of a story of Istinomer (Truth-O-Meter), a fact-checking initiative of the Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability (CRTA), , which meta.mk republishes as part of a content-sharing agreement. The developments involving the arrest and release of journalist Ana Lalić for “spreading panic and inciting unrest” after she reported on the lack of protection equipment at a hospital in...