13 November 2020
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 […]
30 July 2020
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 […]
28 May 2020
Scammers using fake Forbes articles and anti-EU disinformation as bait continue to target Facebook users across Europe, Metamorphosis Foundation warned in a statement issued in Skopje on May 28. Metamorphosis is a civil society organization from North Macedonia promoting digital rights and media literacy. Its monitoring of social networks reveals that scammers continue to use […]
19 May 2020
Be careful – be ware of a new scam with alleged cryptocurrency, warned the Computer Crime and Digital Forensics Sector of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republic of North Macedonia through a press statement. Scammers target Macedonian internet users via the social networks or via e-mail in order to lure them to a fake […]
21 July 2019
Theodoros Daniilidis is the founder, and Thanos Sitistas is the editor of “Ellinika Hoaxes”, the most famous website in Greece that debunks disinformation and fake news. It has been doing that in the past six years, since 2013. In the interview for “Meta.mk”, Daniilidis and Sitistas say that the Greeks are pretty prone to believe […]
25 April 2019
In a recent report sent to the European Commission (EC), as a signatory to the Code of Practice Against Disinformation, Facebook says it has taken down eight coordinated networks of fake profiles from North Macedonia, Kosovo and Russia in the last few weeks. Facebook say the report explains that in total they removed over 2,000 […]
26 March 2019
Facebook today announced that it has deleted thousands of profiles from Macedonia, Kosovo, Russia and Iran, which had showed “unauthentic coordinated behavior”. Of the social networks Facebook and Instagram, 2,632 profiles, pages, and groups were deleted for various reasons. Of the total number, 1,907 profiles or pages were from Russia, and 513 from Iran. In […]
20 November 2018
Former prime minister and leader of the VMRO-DPMNE party, Nikola Gruevski, who was sentenced to two years in prison in the SPO’s “Tank” case, has confirmed on his Facebook profile that he has been granted asylum in Hungary. “Today, the Republic of Hungary, an EU and NATO member country, responded positively to my previously submitted […]
17 December 2017
80 out of 81 mayors use the social media tool Facebook for their work, shows the analysis made by a team of specialists for social media, in the period between 04th and the 15th of December 2017. Second on the list of favorite social media tools that is used by mayors is Instagram. The analysis […]
25 August 2017
The Criminal Court in Skopje has found E.A guilty for insulting the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Facebook, reported the Turkish news agency “Anadolu”. The court sentenced E.A, who has Macedonian and Turkish citizenship, to a fine of 24,600 denars (400 euros) in the proceedings that were opened after criminal charges were filed by […]
21 April 2017
While my colleague in Albania is pulling out scenarios from “his sleeve” such as the unification of Kosovo and Albania, until European integration falls apart for the country’s of this region, his team of lawyers are trying to justify the thesis that what Rama wants, is election points at home, by brutal interference into Macedonia’s […]
26 March 2017
A government who will implement the Tirana platform, made and formed in another country, can not be pro reforms, but an anti-state government, and SDSM’s behaviour is as if there are no people in the country or they are not important whatsoever, said VMRO-DPMNE leader Nikola Gruevski on Facebook profile. “In contrast, the streets are […]
3 March 2017
After the physical assault on a journalist and cameraman from the web portal “A1on”, virtual attacks on journalists on social networks have increased, but, also, attempts to intimidate prominent critics of the current government VMRO-DPMNE. The battle of intolerance has heated up between the ‘patriots’ and the ‘traitors’. All those who do not agree with […]
27 February 2017
For ten years Nikola Gruevski behaved criminally towards Macedonia and its national and strategic interests, said SDSM’s reaction to VMRO-DPMNE’s leader, Nikola Gruevski “Facebook” status. SDSM said that “Gruevski and his closest associates will be held responsible by the institutions for looting, crime, corruption, personal, professional and family tragedies they inflicted on the citizens of […]
26 February 2017
The principle of entering into coalition between winners has been destroyed forever by DUI’s decision. No one, not even VMRO-DPMNE in the future will have an obligation to enter into a coalition with the winner, wrote VMRO-DPMNE’s party leader, Nikola Gruevski on his Facebook page. -This government was made under fierce outside pressure towards DUI, […]
7 February 2017
The US Embassy in Skopje regularly informs the Macedonian authorities about the threats that are issued from different sources, but it has not requested that the perpetrators be legally prosecuted as that is left up to the state’s institutions in charge, said the U.S. Embassy when asked by “Meta” regarding the criminal charges filed by […]
6 February 2017
The Department of Cybercrime and Digital Forensics have brought criminal charges against a 34-year-old man from Skopje TT, due to comments he made on “Facebook”, indirectly threatening the US Ambassador to Macedonia, Jess Baily and his family. The Skopje resident, according to the Ministry of Interior, is suspected of the crime of damaging the reputation […]
25 January 2017
The Special public prosecutor’s office may start another million invented investigations that are products of constructions, without any evidence and arguments, but that won’t make their lies more truthful and it won’t be able to hide their subordination to SDSM, wrote on her Facebook page, the former Minister of internal affairs, Gordana Jankuloska, as a […]
18 December 2016
The former DUI MP, Ermira Mehmeti, last night, through her Facebook profile, published that her car was damaged and that she had been receiving threats. “Threats, blackmail or a message so they can silence me? You can continue to smash the glass on my car, you can send me threatening messages, you can even continue […]
18 October 2016
The Special Public Prosecutor’s Office scheduled a press conference on Thursday at 11:0am where they will announce two more investigations. The Prosecution announced this through their “Twitter” page, and their official website, as well as their “Facebook” profile. Во четврток со почеток во 11 часот прес конференција на #СЈО за две нови истраги. — Специјално […]
