New Elections: A Chance to Shift Political and Security Dynamics in the North

Foto arkiv, 21 prill 2024, Zveçan: Procesi i votimit për largimin e kryetarëve shqiptarë i cili u bojkotua nga shumica serbe.   *Prepared by: Fitim Gashi The...

Analysis of the Narrative: “Kyiv’s Last Push”: Media Coverage of the Ukrainian Offensive in the Kursk Region

Photo: Foto: Ecrusized, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons August 2024. As part of the program Regional Initiative to Combat Disinformation “Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Hub: Exposing Malign Influences...

Revisionist Distortion of Genocide Facts: Victims ‘From Bijeljina to Sarajevo’ Were Not Buried in Potočari

The president of the journalist association in Republika Srpska shared a post in which he manipulatively “explains” the meaning of the number 8,372 on...

Conspiracy Theories About the Olympics Opening Spread in Viral TikTok Video

The opening of the Olympic Games in Paris sparked a series of social media posts with inaccurate and manipulative claims about the alleged symbolism...

Online hysteria over Durov: After Russia exiled him, concerns intensify about his arrest and freedom of speech

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...

Defending itself against Russia’s armed aggression, Ukraine legally bans Russian Church

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...

“Nulta Tachka” – Serbia’s anti-Western propaganda channel

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...

New villas, old lies-disinformation about Zelensky circulating once again

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...

The disinformation agents set their sights on the Olympics

Back in early June, Microsoft warned that Russia is waging a malign disinformation campaign aimed at the Paris Olympics and the French President Emmanuel...

The plan to open the Ibar Bridge for vehicular traffic revives concerns about ethnic tensions

Since the end of the war in Kosovo, the Ibar Bridge has become a symbol of the physical and ethnic divide between Albanians and...

Imported Anti-Catholicism brought to Macedonian soil

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...

Democracy and Dictatorship – “Ephemeral” Biden and “Eternal” Putin

Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the elections brought to life an old Russian narrative, also present in neighboring Serbia as well as in our country...

Trump’s assassination attempt awakened the conspiracy theorists

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...

Analysis of the Narrative: Guardians of Serbian Identity versus Political and Economic Interests

July 2024. As part of the program Regional Initiative to Combat Disinformation “Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Hub: Exposing Malign Influences through Watchdog Journalism”, we present you...

Longing for dictators: Hussein, Gaddafi and Assad

A frequent Kremlin narrative is that Iraqi leader Hussein, Libyan Gaddafi, and Syrian Assad were great patriots with good social policies, but victims of American imperialism, leading to...

Orbán strengthens ties with Beijing and Moscow, offered to leave EU and NATO

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán headlined the last month with the amount of information and disinformation both concerning Russia and its position on peace in...