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Photo: Gerd Altmann on Pixabay The post we are fact-checking falsely suggests that if the barcode of the product starts with the digits 729, that means that the product was manufactured in Israel, which according to the barcode assigning company is not true. The digit 729 just signifies that the barcode was allocated by an organization in Israel, but the...

hoto: Screenshot from the video This event really happened, but not recently – November 2023, and not as an expression of solidarity with more than 4 thousand brutally killed children, as the Facebook post claims, but in 2019. The video clip was published by the Мiddle East Eye media outlet on 14 November 2019. Therefore, the event shown in the...

Photo: Screenshot of the video One cannot claim that all media were servicing some kind of Netanyahu propaganda as suggested by the post. The videos show that the sirens clearly alarmed for an air raid and rockets could be seen (according to the texts, the rockets were from Israel’s aircraft defense that repelled the rockets from Hamas). According to the...

Photo: Video screenshot The video in which the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, allegedly, calls for a military coup and speaks against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a high-quality fake video, or so-called “deepfake”, created with the help of artificial intelligence, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk and Meta.mk, we republish the text below:   A...

The post is spreading disinformation that the Russian military actions on the territory of Ukraine, which took place on 24 February completely unprovoked, are over and that, allegedly, Russia was the winner. The military invasion and the Ukrainian defense, however, are still ongoing and nothing appears to signal that they will end soon. In addition, the post provides disinformation...

Photo: Enrique on Pixabay Neither mass media have recognized that “Ukraine is Done With”, nor should journalists be blamed for the thousands of lives lost in Ukraine, as the post claims. The journalists did not encourage the military invasion of Ukraine, Russia did, while Ukraine responded with the support of its Western partners to defend its right to self-defense. In...

The post is manipulative and presents false information with the intent to belittle the Russian aggression in Ukraine and the Ukrainian death toll. Moreover, somewhat of a comparison is made with the children killed, as an attempt to belittle the number of child victims in Ukraine, writing in disparagement that just one orphan child was killed in Mariupol. Killing...

Photo: Bruno on Pixabay A Facebook post falsely claims that the leaders of EU member states have no offspring. A Truthmeter fact-check, however, proved that most of the prime ministers and presidents of EU Member-States have children, including the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen who has seven children. The post, in fact, demonizes Western values that...

Ukraine is a republic with a presidential-parliamentary system of government, which is defined within the Constitution from 1996. Just before Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow falsely accused Ukraine of genocide against Russian-speaking citizens in the Donbas region. Putin used this narrative to justify the invasion of Ukraine, but with no evidence to support such allegations. Nevertheless, there...

Photo: Screenshot of the video in the FB post The Ukrainian authorities denied the claim that their country was providing arms to Hamas. On Monday (09.10.2023), the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Agency posted on its official Facebook page accusations that Russia launched a disinformation campaign related to these claims. The US continues to support Ukraine in its counter-offensive, but also in...

“Even Vlora Çitaku has a Serbian passport!” “Mega scandal, Srpska Lista leader Goran Rakić has an intimate meeting on a yacht,” “Business loans up to 50,000 euros.” These are just a few examples of the disinformation shared on Facebook this year.Disinformation published in the media spreads false information about public figures, political developments and social issues. It also offers...

By Ardit Kika Daily editions of Serbian pro-government tabloids such as Novosti, Alo, and Srpski Telegraf can be found in the shops and kiosks of Serb-majority municipalities in Kosovo from Zubin Potok to Gračanica. These newspapers not only support and reflect the policies of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, they also voice their support for Russian President Vladimir Putin.Serbia is the...

A video that went viral was edited to look like the featured CNN correspondent and her team were receiving instructions from a director on how to make the military conflict scene look more dramatic and more authentic. The original video without the supposed “instructions” was shared on CNN’s platforms and the news network also denied that the reporting team...

The video is made before the latest wave of war-crimes and violence in the Middle East. The disputed video is not related to the current situation between Hamas and Israel and does not show victims of the war in the Middle East. The video was posted on TikTok few days before Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel on 7th October...

The claim that Biden was born in Israel was shared in an article of the Russian State News Agency TASS, published on 18 October 2023. The article states that the spokesperson of the Foreign Affairs Ministry Maria Zakharova stated that Biden claimed to be born in Israel. However, as can be seen from the White House transcript, Biden said that “the State...

Photo: Pixabay.com The post falsely claims that the war in Ukraine was initiated by the collective West, linking that with the “Great Reset”, in which the Jews allegedly have a role to play. The fact is that Russia initiated the war in Ukraine and that the Western countries are just supporting Ukraine in its efforts to defend its territorial integrity...

CNN follows the Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine with direct presence of its own teams and informs from the field about the situation in Ukraine every day. That did not change even after the new conflict shook the world. Truthmeter analyzed CNN’s coverage from 10-17 October (a week before the Facebook post) and found 6,501 media contents on Ukraine in...

Photo: pixabay.com Western countries did not vote against the “resolution for stopping military actions and attacks between Israel and Palestine”, as the post claims, they just did not support Russia’s resolution to condemn violence and terrorism of civilians, because it did not mention HAMAS attacks and killings of 1,400 civilians in Israel. The post does not want to see the...

The video is not related to the current situation between HAMAS and Israel. Foreign fact-checkers claim that the video is older and does not relate to a humanitarian response to the blockade imposed by Israel from October 2023. For the first time this video was published on the social network TikTok on 31st August 2023. The original title, as...

The photograph of a large poster in Tehran showcasing an Iranian hypersonic missile was not taken recently. Although the accompanying post claims the photograph shows a recent even in Iran’s capital, the photograph’s origins can be traced to June of this year, several months before the attack Hamas’s attack on Israel, writes Thuthmeter.    Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk and...