The Balkans: Open or Closed?

The statements made by Prime Minister Edi Rama regarding the Open Balkans have caused confusion, as they started with enthusiasm but ultimately led to...

Lynchings and threats against the new Serbian policemen in the north

Prepared by: Ridona Berisha Certain Serbian groups have initiated a campaign of harassment against the new Serbian police officers on the Russian social network "Telegram."...

There Is No Billboard “No Zelensky, No War” In New York

Photo: Screenshot from the video The video presented – as foreign fact-checkers found out – is not new, and was recorded before the Russian invasion...

The Trident Is Not a Nazi Symbol, but Part of the Ukrainian History

  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...

Counterspin: Levica Spins that Macedonia is Involved in Repression of the Serbs in Kosovo

Photo: Screenshot from a video   Responding to the government’s decision to send 31 members of ARM to Kosovo for a period of six months, Levica...

False Claim that the Film “Barbie” Is Banned in Serbia, Accompanied by an Altered Photograph

Photo: Screenshot Nowhere can one find information that the film “Barbie” is banned in Serbia. A map of Great Albania does not appear in the...

No Massive Farmer Protests in the Netherlands This Year

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...

Analysis of the News “Jovana Brajović: Because of work I was a bot for SNS, I insulted people and I’m ashamed”

July 2023 As part of the Regional Initiative in Combating Disinformation “Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Hub: Exposing Malign Influences through Watchdog Journalism”, we present you a...

Bogus Statements on Elections Attributed to Zelenskyy

Photo: Screenshot of a video Contrary to the statement in the post we are fact-checking, Zelenskyy did not say that elections in Ukraine will not...

Facebook Bans Nazi and Antisemitic Contents

Photo: pixabay.com Not only Facebook doesn’t say that “Hitler was a good man, a democrat fighting for rights”, as the post claims, but it also...

Tense Kurti-Rama relations spur media speculations

The last minute cancellation of a joint meeting between the governments of Albania and Kosovo was the straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back...

The Ministry of Health refutes the allegation that it is prohibiting the import of oxygen at the Hospital in the North

Some Serbian media outlets and politicians have reacted to the oxygen shortage in the northern Mitrovica hospital, blaming the Kosovo government for it. This unsubstantiated claim,...

The Coronavirus is Not a Hoax; Russia Is the One that Started the War

Photo: pixabay.com – collage This post shares two pieces of disinformation at the same time. The first one is that the coronavirus is a hoax,...

No Unification between Russia and Belarus

Illustration: Truthmeter.mk This article was first published by Truthmeter.mk (North Macedonia), within the framework of Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Project. The post carries a false statement by...

Prigozhin’s Rebellion and the Collapse of Kakhovka Dam – the Main Disinformation Topics in June

Three events became the root of foreign-sourced information and disinformation spread in North Macedonia in June – the collapse of Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine,...

Kosovo crisis in the past month

June 2023 As part of the Regional Initiative in Combating Disinformation “Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Hub: Exposing Malign Influences through Watchdog Journalism”, we present you a...