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 through the Telegram app is...

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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...

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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  Western Balkans Watch and Warn: “Colored Revolution” disinformation...

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),...

Artificial intelligence as a new weapon in Russian disinformation campaigns

Photo: Canva Collage This article was first published by Truthmeter.mk (North Macedonia), within the framework of Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Project. The case of fabricated “leaked documents”...