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Hate speech and harrasment campaign against Metamorphosis staff continues with impunity: “Should we shoot them or bring funeral wreaths to their homes?”
"Here is the cancer of the society," "slowly we are completing the list, information is arriving from all sides and we already have their home addresses," "poor bastards, they don't know they will be erased too, and very quickly," "should we shoot them or bring funeral wreath to their homes," "Macedonians, spit on them in public..." "Get to know...
Journalist associations condemn the hate speech in social networks to Metamorphosis Foundation’s personnel
The Council of Media Ethics of Macedonia (CMEM), the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM), the Macedonian Independent Syndicate of Journalists and Media Workers (ISJMW), and the Macedonian Institute for Media (MIM) condemn the hate speech against the personnel of the civil society organization Metamorphosis, which was spread in the social networks with the publication of an article "(PHOTO)...
The claim that Metamorphosis employees delete content from Facebook is defamation
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 title reads that these are...
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...
Cryptocurrency Scammers flood European Facebook users with geo-targeted ads for fake Forbes.com articles
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 Facebook advertisments masked as links...
Cyber-crime unit of Macedonian police warns about a new scam involving fake Chinese cryptocurrency
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 web page that promises easy...
Sitistas and Daniilidis, “Ellinika Hoaxes”: The fake news is a “bomb” in the foundation of democracy
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 fake news, but also...
“Facebook” removes 212 fake profiles from North Macedonia and Kosovo
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 profiles, pages and groups,...
Facebook deletes thousands of profiles from Macedonia, Kosovo, Russia and Iran
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 regards to Russia, the main...
Gruevski confirms he’s granted asylum in Hungary via “Facebook”
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 request for political asylum due...
Analysis: Mayors don’t use social media tools to listen to citizens
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 shows that 21 mayors use...
A Skopje Court has fined an individual 400 euros for insulting Erdoğan on Facebook
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 the Turkish Ambassador to the...
Dimitriev scolds Rama on Facebook
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 processes of a “friendly...
Gruevski on “Facebook”: SDSM have committed electoral fraud with the Tirana platform
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 full of people protesting and...
After the beatings, journalists are now being spat on in public and on social networks
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 the views and the actions of...
SDSM: Gruevski’s lies are a result of his fear of facing justice
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 Macedonia."
“The lies told by the...
Gruevski on Facebook: If this government is voted, it will be a government of a one ambassador
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, in which many took...
US Embassy: All threats are reported to the Ministry of Interior, but we do not demand criminal prosecution
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 the Ministry of Internal...
MOI has brought criminal charges against a Skopje resident after threatening Baily on “Facebook”
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 of a foreign country.
"The Department...
Jankuloska: Even if SPO opens millions of investigations it won’t be able to hide that it is subordinated to SDSM
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 reaction to the new...
