Tag: fake news

Eraldin Fazliu the editor in chief of “Pristina Insight”, in an interview for Portalb.mk, says that the most common disinformation comes from the politicians in Kosovo. He points out that one of the main problems of Kosovo is disinformation with visual elements. Such as old photographs and pictures received from other places, that are with an expired date, wrong...

With the presidential elections in the Republic of North Macedonia fast approaching, the election campaign intensifies, as the scope of the disinformation promulgated in the public, formed into the so called “fake news”, increases. The term “fake news” is widely used nowadays, mostly to delegitimize news that is completely accurate, but disliked by the person classifying them as fake. Here,...

ARM has revoked "certain authorization" from the two of its members suspected of spreading fake news, discovered by Belgian investigative journalist Maarten Schenk. Against the two, who are a Major-Officer for security and a professional soldier, the ARM has announced other sanctions after the formal completion of the disciplinary procedure. "One member was withdrawn from a mission in Bosnia and...

Fake news surrounding the Prespa Agreement was the main topic at a press conference held by the Government today, where Minister of Information Society and Administration, Damjan Manchevski and his Greek counterpart, Minister of Digital Policies, Telecommunications and Media, Nikos Pappas signed a Memorandum of Understanding, reports "CriThink". At the conference, which was followed by a number of Greek journalists, one...

The ARM (Army of the Republic of Macedonia) is waiting for "specialized services" to conduct an investigation about the soldier Slagan Bojkovski, referred to as a creator of fake news. Depending on what the investigation will reveal, there could be disciplinary action against the professional soldier for damaging the reputation of the Army, which, in accordance with the Law on...

Government spokesman Mile Bosnjakovski said today at a press conference that the Government will undertake activities for protecting the public from fake news and misinformation through announcements on social networks in the upcoming period during the referendum silence. Any news, as Bosnjakovski announced, which is detected to be fake, misinformation or half-truth, will be appropriately identified and, as he explained,...

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...

Today, a large number of online media published news, attributed to Forbes Magazine listing the 10 richest Albanians.  However, when the Forbes Magazine online opens, there are no Albanians among the 100 richest in the world, and there is no report on Albania. It appears that online portals are citing an unknown site that claims to be "Forbes", even their web...

A joint investigation by "BuzzFeed News" and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) has revealed that Veles’ political news industry was not started "spontaneously by apolitical teenagers." According to the investigation, after reviewing social media posts, government records, domain registry information and archived versions of fake news websites, as well as interviewing key players, the websites with fake...

A lot of people have become more aware of the real impact of the Internet on our societies, economies and personal well-being, i.e. they are conscious of the fact that "how healthy the Internet is" is not only a technical issue but also a "human", the "Internet Health Report 2018" says, prepared by the Mozilla Foundation. According to the report,...

The security and confidentiality of the Internet, as well as the influence of fake news and the use of digital technologies for the manipulation of public opinion, along with the problem of diminished confidence in the media and state institutions, were the main topics discussed at the 12th meeting at the IGF (Internet Governance Forum), held in Geneva from...

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia sent copies of the Code Journalists of Macedonia to all the media registered in the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services. "The AJM Code of Ethics was adopted in 2001 and was first distributed to all media in the country. Due to recent developments and upcoming local elections, the need for its re-representation...

Gjorgje Ivanov is lying to the citizens of Macedonia. It is false news that when Ivanov allocated the mandate, he acted just like President Gligorov in 1992, was SDSM’s reaction today. The party sent to the media a copy of the statement from President Kiro Gligorov’s cabinet from July the 14th, 1992, which they say clearly shows that President Gligorov...