29 December 2021
The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) informs of a court judgement in its favor. Namely, a profile on Facebook named “Sasho Mitev” posted a comment with obscenities and hate speech under a post on AJM’s Facebook page. According to the judgment of the Basic Criminal Court, Sasho Mitev is guilty under the article 394 […]
21 December 2021
The Anti-Disinformation Network for the Balkans (ADN-Balkans) issued a statement of support for the Croatian fact-checking outlet Faktograf.hr whose staff had been subject to death threats, while their website has suffered massive cyber-attack hampering its basic functionality. This latest wave of attacks against the fact-checkers, that started on December 10, expands the continuous smear campaign […]
14 July 2021
Journalist associations Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM), the Council of Media Ethics of Macedonia (CMEM), Independent Union of Journalists and Media Workers (SSNM) and Macedonian Institute for Media (MIM) are demanding urgent action on part of the Ministry of Interior (MOI) and the Public Prosecutor’s Office after the continuous open calls for lynching of […]
5 January 2021
The Appeals Commission – CMEM – of the Council of Media Ethics of North Macedonia, on the 24th of December 2020, reached a decission on the appeals from the Foundation for Internet and Society “Metamorphosis” for an article published on the news sites Lider.mk, Kurir.mk and Netpress.com.mk, which by doing so, have breached several articles […]
10 December 2020
“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 […]
5 December 2020
Global Voices has called on the authorities in North Macedonia to investigate the online hate campaign against the Metamorphosis Foundation’s staff that began on the 12th of November and is still going. “Global Voices strongly condemns these attacks on our long-standing partner. We call on North Macedonia’s authorities to investigate these activities and to enforce […]
18 November 2020
The Ambassador of Great Britain, Rachel Galloway on her Twitter account condemned the hate speech and the false accusations on social networks and certain news sites towards Meta.mk’s staff, who together with their colleagues from Metamorphosis have found themselves targets of malice since Lider news site published an article with inflammatory speech. Galloway requested that […]
17 November 2020
The EU Ambassador in North Macedonia, David Geer, on his Twitter profile requested that the hate speech and the smear campaign against the Metamorphosis Foundation’s staff be promptly investigated and expressed his support to the staff. Just spoke to Metamorphosis following smear campaign against them. There should be no place for incitement of hatred or […]
13 November 2020
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 […]
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 […]
11 August 2020
The Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria “Shalom” castigated Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Krassimir Karakachanov’s comment that “NGOs in Bulgaria backed by George Soros want to overtake the power in order to introduce gay marriage” and called this kind of rhetoric anti-Semitic to the core. This statement by Karakachanov, leader of […]
14 July 2020
The Government of North Macedonia condemned the attacks with hate speech on journalist Tanja Milevska, MIA’s correspondent from Brussels, or any other journalist and citizen. “The Government strongly supports the freedom of speech and free press and has a zero-tolerance for intimidation and threats directed at journalists. Safe reporting and freedom of thought, speech, and […]
9 July 2020
From 1st of January to 30th of April this year there were 298 complaints about various categories of hate speech lodged at the web platform govornaomraza.mk, shows the monitoring of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, carried out with a special focus on three pilot-municipalities: Shtip, Bitola and Tetovo. “There was a notable increase of […]
10 June 2020
The hate speech phenomenon is once again the focus of the general public in North Macedonia and its use increased with the start of the coronavirus pandemic, writes Portalb.mk. With the increase of the number of people infected with COVID-19, the propaganda machinery, which consists in part of numerous influential media partially owned by Hungarian […]
7 June 2020
Academician Katica Kulavkova, a member of the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences (MANU) caused uproar on social networks on June 6 by publishing a tweet promoting positions deemed nationalistic and chauvinistic by the public. Kulavkova (sometimes also written as Kjulavkova) used her Twitter profile to publish a tweet stating “The price of coexistence is […]
5 June 2020
Disinformation launched June 3 by several right-wing media in North Macedonia, falsely claiming that Greece prohibits citizens of certain municipalities to enter the country, had been promptly debunked by CriThink, but it continues to serve as part of the populist arsenal for inciting inter-ethnic tensions and hate speech promoting religious intolerance. These claims were originally […]
2 December 2019
The fact-checking service Faktograf has reported on October 31 that the Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts of the Republic of Croatia has given around 14.5 thousand dollars in subsidies from EU structural funds to the portal Dnevno.hr, “one of the leading producers of disinformation in the Croatian media space.” The money from the European fund for Regional Development was granted for […]
25 April 2019
The Association for the Protection of Printed Media has joined the Network for the Fight against Hate Speech in the Media, initiated and coordinated by the Council of Ethics in the Media of Macedonia (CEMM). President of the CEMM Management Board, Katerina Sinadinovska, stressed that when dealing with hate speech in the media, it is […]
10 April 2019
It is unacceptable that a head of a religious community, whose aim is to unite and not create discord among the people, has called his fellow citizens “savages and people without identity”, responded civic organization “Civil”. According to them, it is unacceptable for a person who is full of such hatred to be the highest […]
29 October 2018
Since the new legislative amendments to the Criminal Code for Hate Speech came into force in February 2014, the Skopje Criminal Court has only charged two individuals with a fine over hate speech. The number of fines is very small in comparison to the 341 cases recorded on the digital platform “Report and Resist Hate Speech” […]
