DISINFO RADAR: Watch and Warn, issue #12 (prepared in November 2025)

Anticipated flashpoint events likely to fuel disinformation narratives in the Western Balkans during December 2025, identified during November Subscribe to the monthly newsletter → Western Balkans Watch and Warn: Foreseen increases...

Propaganda post distorts theses about the war in Ukraine

Illustration: Truthmeter.mk This article was first published by Truthmeter.mk (North Macedonia), within the framework of Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Project. The term “UkroNazis” was popularized by Russian...

21 November 2025 webinar: Countering Anti-EU Narratives and hate speech in the Western Balkans: Challenges and Responses

Event by Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Hub   Metamorphosis Foundation invites you to participate in the webinar - panel discussion “Countering Anti-EU Narratives and hate speech in...

It is not true that Satanists caused chaos in Ukraine and brought Zelensky to power

Euromaidan, Kyiv, February 2014, Photo: Аимаина хикари, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons This article was first published by Truthmeter.mk (North Macedonia), within the framework of Western Balkans...

Without evidence and with an AI-generated video, it is claimed that Ukrainian soldiers surrendered en masse

Illustration: Truthmeter.mk This article was first published by Truthmeter.mk (North Macedonia), within the framework of Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Project. Claims of mass surrenders of Ukrainian soldiers...

Laura Jasper on the AI threat: It’s not just fake news, it’s personalized political warfare 

Photo: Vanco Dzambaski The nature of foreign interference is fundamentally changing. Laura Jasper, a leading expert on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) from The...

Social networks are not only for propaganda but also for recruiting Balkans into the Russian military

Illustration: Truthmeter.mk This article was first published by Truthmeter.mk (North Macedonia), within the framework of Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Project. The recruitment of mercenaries from the Balkans...

How the Kremlin twists the truth: Russian propaganda and the stolen children of Ukraine

Illustration: Truthmeter.mk This article was first published by Truthmeter.mk (North Macedonia), within the framework of Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Project. Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine created the...

Anti-EU narratives carry inaccurate epithets of fascism and Nazism

Illustration: Truthmeter.mk This article was first published by Truthmeter.mk (North Macedonia), within the framework of Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Project. The narrative that the EU, NATO and...

The contradictions of the pro-Russian candidate for mayor of Skopje, Zoran Jovanovski

Illustration: Truthmeter.mk This article was first published by Truthmeter.mk (North Macedonia), within the framework of Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Project. Jovanovski presents himself as a “Vmrovec” ,...

DISINFO RADAR: Watch and Warn, issue #11 (prepared in October 2025)

Anticipated flashpoint events likely to fuel disinformation narratives in the Western Balkans during November 2025, identified during October Subscribe to newsletter!  Western Balkans Watch and Warn:...

NATO is not at war with Russia so it cannot “surrender”

Illustration: Truthmeter.mk This article was first published by Truthmeter.mk (North Macedonia), within the framework of Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Project. There is no credible evidence that, on...

Post spreads Russian propaganda that Putin is a messiah fighting global Satanists

Illustration: Truthmeter.mk This article was first published by Truthmeter.mk (North Macedonia), within the framework of Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Project. The theory that Putin is fighting against...

It is not true that Russia eliminated 70 NATO officers in a Ukrainian restaurant

Illustration: Truthmeter.mk This article was first published by Truthmeter.mk (North Macedonia), within the framework of Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Project. The claim that Russia “eliminated 70 NATO...

Propaganda post justifies Russia by saying it was not conquering, but rather preventing global chaos

Ukrainian soldier Photo: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons This article was first published by Truthmeter.mk (North Macedonia), within the framework of...

NATO is unjustifiably accused of “pushing into war” with Russia

Photo: nato This article was first published by Truthmeter.mk (North Macedonia), within the framework of Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Project. Polish and allied air defenses have been deployed...

It is not true that the war in Ukraine is a proxy war America has been planning for decades

Ruins in Kyiv after the Russian military intervention in 2022 Photo: President.gov.ua, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons This article was first published by Truthmeter.mk (North Macedonia),...