29 January 2021
On the occasion of the 28th January – European Data Protection Day, the Metamorphosis Foundation for Internet and Society announced it will join the international movement “Reclaim Your Face”. “Reclaim Your Face” is a movement started by members of EDRi – European Digital Rights Initiative, in order to limit the use of systems for mass […]
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 […]
22 October 2020
On the 30th of October, starting at 11 AM on the ZOOM online platform, the Metamorphosis Foundation for Internet and Society will organize an online event titled “Dialogues for the Digital Agenda” which is a part of the “Increasing Civic Engagement in the Digital Agenda – ICEDA” project and is co-financed by the European Union. […]
30 July 2020
Today, Facebook announced that together with the Metamorphosis Foundation and Truthmeter, will launch a third-party fact-checking program in North Macedonia. Besides our country, Facebook is launching this program in other countries in the region: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia, while the existing program in Croatia will be expanded. As part of Facebook’s fight against […]
16 June 2020
Το φαινόμενο της έκφρασης μίσους, τις τελευταίες ημέρες βρίσκεται και πάλι στο επίκεντρο της επικαιρότητας στη Δημοκρατία της Βόρειας Μακεδονίας, ενώ η χρήση της αυξήθηκε με την εμφάνιση της πανδημίας του κορωνοϊού, αναφέρει η διαδικτυακή πύλη Portalb.mk. Με την αύξηση του αριθμού κρουσμάτων του Covid-19, ο προπαγανδιστικός μηχανισμός, του οποίου τμήμα αποτελούν και περισσότερα γνωστά […]
20 May 2020
Metamorphosis Foundation and the CriThink’s team give full support to our colleague Miroslava Burns who is a target of vulgar, sexist, and discriminatory attacks. The attacks consist of insults and threats, inconvenient and threatening speech, but there are also elements that can be described as hate speech, which is a felony according to the Criminal […]
13 February 2020
An opinion poll conducted by the Institute for European Affairs in September 2019 shows that 23 percent of Serbian citizens believe Russia is Serbia’s largest aid donor. In reality, Russia hasn’t made the top 10 of Serbia’s largest donors since 2000, according to the data by the Ministry of European Integration. The EU tops the list with 2.96 billion […]
25 July 2019
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, announcing the draft for a plan for combatting the disinformation and fake news, at press conference yesterday pointed out that misinformation and disinformation about North Macedonia, in addition to a part of the local media, is also spread by other countries. “The Republic of North Macedonia in the past two years […]
27 June 2019
The problems of disinformation and the steps to fight it was the topic of the workshop that took place on Tuesday and Wednesday in Thessaloniki, with the participation of 35 journalists, experts and NGO staff from North Macedonia and Greece. The workshop was co-hosted by the US Embassies in Greece and North Macedonia, the State […]
7 June 2019
Starting yesterday, until Friday, the Foundation for Society and the Internet “Metamorphosis” will be part of the international conference on the verification of facts and the fight against misinformation – disinformation, “Facing the facts in the Balkans and beyond”, writes “Portabl.mk”. In the first panel discussion yesterday, attended by leading media outlets whose work is […]
29 March 2019
Has the media in the country been reformed after the period of full media darkness and the phase “captured state” especially in the period after 2011 and by the middle of 2016? How to get a free and powerful media – real bearers of the “fourth estate” in the country? Part of these questions were […]
18 March 2019
The creation and launch of the new Open Data Portal for the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia is a good step forward, which gives a clear signal of commitment to transparency. However, in order to identify the real potential benefits, it is necessary to open data that will enable the creation of new […]
18 March 2019
The US State Department in its latest Human Rights Report cites the findings obtained from the periodic report on the status of media reforms that was developed within the framework of the “Media Reform Observatory” project implemented by the Foundation for Internet and Society “Metamorphosis”, “Agora” and the Platform for Investigative Journalism and Analysis (PINA), […]
4 December 2018
A total of 14 civil organizations, including the Foundation Open Society – Macedonia, the Metamorphosis Foundation and the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of the Republic of Macedonia, today issued a second response to the government, setting a deadline of 10 days to determine accountability for former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski’s escape. Otherwise, say the […]
14 September 2018
In projects by the European Union that relate to the development of critical thinking and media literacy, main efforts are aimed at young people and the way they perceive and use news and information, primarily from the Internet, as the dominant part of their media ecosystem “Democracy should allow deep disputes to be discussed publicly […]
11 May 2018
The “Freedom and the Internet in Macedonia” conference, organized by the Foundation for Internet and Society “Metamorphosis”, as part of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Foundation Open Society Macedonia (FOSM) – was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU) today.#ФООМ25 The conference discussed the development of the Internet in the country, […]
23 April 2018
The Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2017 for Macedonia, prepared by the US State Department, itemizes numerous instances of threats and attacks to journalists, media subordinated to the politics and the economic interests, but also public distrust of the media. “The constitution provides for freedom of expression, including for members of the press, […]
2 April 2018
The International Fact-Checking Network, in partnership with fact-checking organizations around the world, today mark International Fact-Checking Day. “We believe that fact-checking shouldn’t be something only professional fact-checkers do. An accurate information ecosystem requires everyone to do their part”, said the International Fact-Checking Network. Also part of this network, is the Foundation for Internet and Society […]
1 February 2018
The security and confidentiality of the Internet, as well as the influence of fake news and the use of digital technologies for the manipulation of public opinion, along with the problem of diminished confidence in the media and state institutions, were the main topics discussed at the 12th meeting at the IGF (Internet Governance Forum), […]
22 November 2017
Reforms in the media must be done professionally, through debate and separate regulation is needed for internet portals in order to avoid abuse, was the conclusion from the conference “e-society” on “Media and Policy” organized by the Foundation for Internet and Society “Metamorphosis”. Minister of Information Society and Administration, Damjan Mancevski, believes that online portals […]
