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It is not true that NATO is instigating war and that its goal is to fight Russia at the expense of Ukrainian citizens. Such a narrative is part of the Russian propaganda that wants to present Ukraine as a vassal of the Western countries by accepting to go to war against Russia and sacrifice its citizens to fulfill NATO’s...

Photo: vlada.mk The post we are fact-checking is spreading disinformation and is slandering the strategic partners of North Macedonia by calling them “enemies” and, furthermore, glorifying Russia. It is true that Russia congratulated us upon our national holiday Ilinden, but congratulations also came from the embassies of the USA, France, and the United Kingdom, as well as from the EU...

Had Petrovska ever said such a thing, all of the media would have reported it, both the national and the international media. But such a thing cannot be found in the online space, neither in writing nor in audio form. Indeed, had Petrovska stated such a thing, an appropriate response would have followed from the side that, was declared...

Photo: Screenshot from the video A six-year-old video was misused for spreading lies that French President Emmanuel Macron is publicly displaying a masonic symbol. The video was recorded on 16th May 2017, when Macron received the members of the International Olympic Committee visiting Paris – then a candidate for hosting the Olympic Games 2024. The sign made by Macron has...

The alleged cynical statement about Ambassador Victoria Nuland shared in this Facebook post is fabricated. No official, established, relevant and credible medium has transmitted such a statement from the so-called Niger “revolutionary government” – that they did not want US money and even that they allegedly recommended the funds to be used for a “weight-loss program for Victoria Nuland”....

Photo: pixabay.com Reuters’s fact-checkers inform that until 2nd August – and according to our checks, also on 3rd August, when this fact-check has been written – there is no official information verified by the authorities of Niger, nor by those who carried out the coup on the President of Niger, about the alleged termination of uranium and gold exports to...

There is no evidence in support of the claim about plundering and “kidnapping” Ukrainian cultural treasures. Such claims from the post were refuted by the Ukrainian authorities. The Ministry of Culture and Information Technologies of Ukraine stated that the claim about kidnapping Ukrainian sacred relics is fabricated. The post states that the relics from the Kyiv church compound will...

The post is falsely claiming that the video shared is showing Ukrainian troops surrendering to Russian forces. The video-clipping is from prisoner swap between the Wagner Group and the Ukrainian Armed Forces from last May in Ukraine. At the time, the swap was confirmed by both countries, writes Thruthmeter.   Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk and Meta.mk, we republish the...

Irena Visinska is a geopolitical analyst whose area of expertise is studies on hybrid threats to contemporary society and geopolitical trends in the Western Balkan region. Her attention is especially directed towards studying the disinformation flows and foreign propaganda, including the ramifications in the Balkan region thereafter. Meta.mk interviewed Visinska about her latest study ”Geopolitical perspective of disinformation flows...

Never before has Kremlin’s propaganda machinery been concentrated on disseminating so many disinformation pieces about one person as is currently doing with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The constant inflow of lies about the Ukrainian President, spread on daily basis, shows that he is a thorn in the eye of Moscow’s regime and the main hurdle for the failure of the “three-day...

In July, in the Macedonian language media one could have read a few types of Russian narratives related to the state of affairs in Ukraine. Most dominant were those connected to the NATO Summit in Vilnius, the US-approved cluster ammunition for Ukraine, the destiny of Prigozhin, including the narrative that Poland wanted to occupy parts of Ukraine that was...

The Russian missile attack of Kramatorsk was purposely executed on civilian buildings. During the attack of the pizzeria in Kramatorsk, 12 civilians were killed, and dozens injured. The fact that an American soldier was there eating does not make the building “legitimate military target”, as claimed by Russia. The post is disseminating Russian propaganda that the target of the...

The logo of the Rainforest Alliance is not the golden poison frog, but the red-eyed tree frog. The frog on the logo has a symbolic meaning of a bioindicator of healthy environment and has nothing to do with the “golden billion” – an old conspiracy theory, according to which the global elites seek to hoard the world’s wealth and...

“Culture wars” or ideological conflicts between the left and the right-wing became a dominant topic in US political discourse. Both sides are trying to present their truth and viewpoint as the only right option, while “they, the others” are the strike of evil wanting to destroy humankind. These imported culture wars, with all of their intolerance for the opponent...

Considering the information received by the Securities and Exchange Commission as the regulator of the securities market in the country, especially due to the fact that those promoting the investment are not licensed brokers/investment advisers, including the fact that the promotion of the offer does not reveal an authorized legal person (brokerage house, authorized bank or an entity managing...

Disinformation and fake news are not just a media problem, but a security problem. They destabilize the countries of Western Balkans, including North Macedonia, undermining the trust in democratic institutions and hindering the realization of their most important strategic objectives. This is the general conclusion of the new analysis titled ”Geopolitical Perspective of Disinformation Flows in the Western Balkans,” published...

Photo: pixabay.com Drawing a parallel between Zelenskyy and Hitler is a classical manipulation in the spirit of Russian propaganda. All this is done to justify the Russian aggression of sovereign Ukraine which is ongoing for more than a year. Zelensky is Jewish – his grandfather and his three brothers were fighting against the Nazis. As a reminder, Ukraine banned the...

Photo: Screenshot from the video The video presented – as foreign fact-checkers found out – is not new, and was recorded before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At the moment, the building looks different from what we see in the video material, and the traffic lights on the street were changed and are now yellow, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement...

Photo: Farmer protests in the Netherlands. © Frank Magdelyns, 22nd June 2022 Dutch farmers organized massive protests last year, but not this year. Fact-checkers from the Netherlands told Truthmeter that protests were organized in 2023, but none could be compared to the huge protests and unrest in 2022. Dutch farmers do not protest because the Government wants to dislocate them...

Photo: Ministry of Defense of North Macedonia Responding to the government’s decision to send 31 members of ARM to Kosovo for a period of six months, Levica is spinning that KFOR is a suppressive force that frequently uses excessive force against the Serbs and that with this decision of the government, the country becomes a party in such repression. It...