fbpx
Tags Hate speech

Tag: hate speech

Threats and hate speech for North Macedonia Union of High School Students after satire article

The „Kooperacija.mk“satire web site recently published a satirical article titled "I WANT THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS TO BE CANCELLED!! WE WANT TO LEARN!!!" allegedly written after the statement by a high school student and illustrated with a photo from the most recent public appearance of the President of the Union of High School Students of the Republic of North Macedonia...

Suspended sentence for man who wrote comment with hate speech on AJM’s Facebook page

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 - G of the Criminal...

Anti-Disinformation Network for the Balkans expresses support for Croatian fact-checkers Faktograf.hr, after receiving death threats and cyber-аttacks

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 aimed at defaming both the...

Macedonian journalist associations call on institutions to stop ignoring the calls for lynching of Metamorphosis Foundation’s journalists

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 journalists and other employees...

CMEM decides upon Metamorphosis’s appeals: Lider, Kurir and Netpres have breached articles of the Journalist Code of Ethics

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 of the Journalist Code...

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...

Global Voices condemns the hate attacks on Metamorphosis Foundation

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 the appropriate legal remedies against...

British Ambassador Galloway condemns the hate speech and false accusations against Meta Agency’s journalists

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 all relevant institutions take...

EU Ambassador David Geer: The threats against Metamorphosis foundation’s staff should be promptly investigated

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. https://twitter.com/AmbassadorEU/status/1328348269483872257 Four days ago, during the night when most of the citizens in Macedonia were celebrating the victory of Macedonian's national football team and its...

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...

Bulgarian Jews: Dubbing people “Sorosoids” both by Karakachanov and anyone else equals sheer Antisemitism

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 the ultra-nationalist Bulgarian party VMRO...

Government of North Macedonia strongly condemns the attacks on journalist Tanja MIlevska and calls for quick response

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 action in the media are...

Helsinki Committee: Number of hate speech complaints on the rise in North Macedonia

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 the number of complaints compared...

Civic organizations condemn the hate speech while the authorities turn a blind eye on its proliferation

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 companies, these days have...

Macedonian Academician Katica Kulavkova publishes tweet promoting hate speech, then deletes it within few hours

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 paid with lives," which...

False news about Greek border regime used for inciting ethnic and religions tensions in North Macedonia

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 published on by the website...

Fact-checking service blames Croatian government for using EU money to fund online portal that spreads disinformation

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  redesign of their website...

Network for the Fight Against Hate Speech receives new member

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 particularly important to continue the...

“Civil”: Reis Sulejman Rexhepi must be held accountable for hate speech

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 representative of a religious community...