2 September 2024
Russian propaganda tried to portray the fact that the Ukrainian government banned the Moscow-affiliated Orthodox Church as a “persecution of Christians” and as a tendency of the West, which supports Ukraine, to destroy Orthodoxy and the Orthodox Church. This kind of narrative is also gaining traction on social networks in North Macedonia, promoted by supporters […]
1 September 2024
Russia, which took control of Durov’s first company and which prompted him to establish Telegram while being in exile is now expressing concern about his arrest. Media outlets there report on the absurdity of the accusations against him and consider the Telegram case an attack on Russia. The Russian embassy in France “immediately took the […]
29 August 2024
It’s not very difficult to note that every other post on the website is anti-Western and portrays Western countries as unjust, controversial and full of crime. Conspiracy theories aimed at fostering disruption and uncertainty among citizens are based on a few postulates or main ideas: migration, the World Economic Forum, COVID vaccination and all the […]
26 August 2024
Elon Musk speaks Albanian, while Donald Trump presents himself as the “President of the Russian Federation” – such manipulative videos can now be made in less than two minutes. Nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) tools offer unlimited possibilities, and thus they can be used to replace the face of one person with another and alter or […]
26 August 2024
t is Russia that denies the Ukrainian identity and religion, not Western countries. Western countries are not “gay systems” that Russia is fighting against in defense of traditional values, as the Kremlin propaganda wants to promote. Such an attitude is merely a justification for the military invasion of Ukraine and Russia’s desire to assimilate Ukraine […]
23 August 2024
Disinformation claiming that the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been living lavishly is once again circulating in the region. This time, he “purchased” an opulent villa with a winery and a vineyard belonging to the English musician Sting. Colleagues from the Georgian Myth Detector checked with the Italian real estate registry where they confirmed that as […]
17 August 2024
Taken and translated from the Serbian version of Sputnik, the Facebook post twists the truth and spreads several pieces of disinformation. To begin with, it quotes a former Japanese diplomat, whose views by no means reflect the official position of Japan. During the entire Russo-Ukrainian War, Japan has had a decisive position on the support […]
16 August 2024
Back in early June, Microsoft warned that Russia is waging a malign disinformation campaign aimed at the Paris Olympics and the French President Emmanuel Macron. According to their information, the influence operations include fabricated videos, fake news and AI-generated speeches, such as the case with the imitated voice of Hollywood actor Tom Cruise, writes Truthmeter.mk. […]
15 August 2024
The West does not deceive the Ukrainians into death, but provides them aid for self-defense, which is essential for them. The West would not be providing aid if the country had no use of it and if Russia had no territorial claims on Ukraine. Additionally, the patriotic feelings and deeds of the Ukrainian people as […]
8 August 2024
A Facebook post claims that Russian and Chinese fighter aircraft flew into US airspace, but in reality, they only came close to but did not overfly Alaska and were eventually escorted back by American and Canadian interceptors. This has been happening for quite some time, and the only thing that’s new is that this is […]
7 August 2024
The Paris Olympics are underway and the Russian athletes are not allowed to participate. The MP from the pro-Russian party Levica (The Left), Redzep Ismail, claims that the last such case was the Olympics in Berlin in 1936. That is untrue, and Ismail creates the false impression that the Nazis, who ruled Germany at the […]
6 August 2024
Authoritarian states such as Russia and China use various strategies to hinder the Euro-Atlantic integration and to manipulate politics and public opinion in the Western Balkans. This, among other things, was said by Rumena Filipova, the recipient of the IVLP Impact Award of the US State Department and founder of the Institute for Global Analytics (IGA). Commenting on […]
5 August 2024
Current phenomenon of anti-Catholicism can be seen on social networks where the Orthodox beliefs of Macedonian citizens are being manipulated. Such promotion of anti-Catholicism comes either from the neighborhood or from Russia and that can clearly be seen from the rhetoric used in such attacks. Although Macedonians are mainly Orthodox, anti-Catholicism has no tradition in […]
4 August 2024
Neither the Ukrainian nor the Russian side has indicated that the Children’s Hospital in Kyiv was used as a location for NATO’s General Staff, as claimed by the post. The biggest military organization, NATO, is not involved in the war in Ukraine, nor does it have troops deployed. NATO is assisting Ukraine and providing support […]
3 August 2024
While the European Parliament condemned the meeting between Orban and Putin, it is not true that the EU demanded Orban to pay 2 million euros and that he did not have the money, so Putin and Xi Jinping offered to lend him the money as the post claims. Truthmeter tried to find such a statement […]
2 August 2024
Numerous conspiracy theories and disinformation spread following the attempted assassination of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump. Truthmeter examined several of the narratives shared so far in the country, coincidence or not, also originated from individuals associated with parties aligned with the Kremlin and hold positive views on Vladimir Putin, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement […]
30 July 2024
The video in the post was first online in September 2022. It is an excerpt from a 115-minute French documentary film titled: “A President, Europe, and War” with dialogues between Macron, Putin, Zelenskyy, and other world leaders. The post promotes the video as though it was a recent discussion between Macron and Zelenskyy and, on […]
29 July 2024
Truthmeter googled the photographs from the video and concluded that the footage showed ”Duga” – the Russian radar system over the horizon (OTH) used in the Soviet Union as part of the early warning radar network for missile defense, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk and Meta.mk, we republish the text in full below: […]
29 July 2024
A Facebook post attempts to debunk the Western narratives about Putin as illegitimate, by mixing evidence-based claims with unsupported assertions. For example, it is true that currently there are no big protests in Russia against Putin, but there is a reason for that. The post is intentionally silent about the “elections” mentioned therein which are […]
28 July 2024
The post, essentially, says that the support for Ukraine extended by the functionaries of VMRO-DPMNE is the same as the alleged support for “Nazism and Fascism in Ukraine and in the EU”, which is not true. This narrative corresponds to the pro-Kremlin narrative that “denazification is ongoing in Ukraine”, a term used by the top […]
