Tag: disinformation

Speculation from the Bulgarian news portal "BulNews" that the "Cesna" plane that crashed near Solunska Glava which killed a family of four from Bulgaria, crashed because it was not allowed to land in Skopje due to the flight of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, was denied by the relevant services in Macedonia, by Bulgarian experts, but also by the...

Brian Whitmore, senior researcher and Director of the Russian Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), a research institute dedicated to Eastern, Central European and Russian Studies, held a virtual lecture, which could be followed in four cities across Eastern Europe: Bucharest, Kiev, Podgorica and Skopje for dealing with disinformation that originated in the Kremlin, as a...

As of its establishing until today, there are numerous false news, manipulations and disinformation related to the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office, especially about the three public prosecutors, who led the press conferences where investigations and indictments were announced and reviewed and elaborated by the SPO, who were always the targets of attempts for personal discredit via articles whose purpose...

Since the announcement of the referendum until it was held there was a lot of information in the public on its type, who will support it, who will boycott it, whether the census will be reduced and so on. Many fake news and disinformation were present in the social networks and the media, writes “CriThink”. On September 30, a Referendum...

  The aspirations of Republic of Macedonia for NATO membership are an effort and top strategic priority since the country independence.  They are a constant subject to manipulations in the public in the endless struggle between the two largest political parties in the country (SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE), and by other smaller “actors” on the political scene (Edinstvena Makedonija, Levica and...

Last week, disinformation that was published by pro-government Serbian daily newspaper "Politika", lied to a large part of the Albanian media who in turn, shared the news. "Politika", citing its own sources, claimed that Nikola Gruevski flew to Budapest via Tirana. One of the most well read media outlets in Albania, "Gazeta Mapo", reported this information with additional "spice" -...

Russian news agency "Sputnik News", formerly known as "RIA Novosti" and "Voice of Russia", has already renamed the Republic of Macedonia to North Macedonia. Under the headline "Greece, N. Macedonia have "started talking" despite "identity conflict", the Russian agency that is part of the government's media consortium "Rossiya Segodnya", published an interview with Professor Neophytos Loizides from the University of Kent,...

In recent years, online media in Albania has boomed. However, many of them are not transparent and "produce" unverified news, Meta's correspondent reports from Tirana. One of these media portals is Pamfleti.net. Much of the news published are actually claims presented in the form of facts. For example, one of the most viewed news on the portal is an article entitled...