Tag: fact-check

The Strategic Partners of North Macedonia Congratulated Us on Our National Holiday Ilinden

Photo: vlada.mk The post we are fact-checking is spreading disinformation and is slandering the strategic partners of North Macedonia by calling them “enemies” and, furthermore,...

Petrovska Never Stated that She Declares War on Russia

Photo: mod.gov.mk Had Petrovska ever said such a thing, all of the media would have reported it, both the national and the international media. But...

Macron Is Not Showing a Masonic Symbol but the Eiffel Tower in Sign Language

Photo: Screenshot from the video A six-year-old video was misused for spreading lies that French President Emmanuel Macron is publicly displaying a masonic symbol. The...

Nuland Attacked with Fabricated and Insulting Statement Allegedly by Niger Military Junta

Photo: Screenshot from a video on youtube.com The alleged cynical statement about Ambassador Victoria Nuland shared in this Facebook post is fabricated. No official, established,...

An Arbitrary Claim that the New Niger Authorities Have Stopped Uranium and Gold Exports to France

Photo: pixabay.com Reuters’s fact-checkers inform that until 2nd August – and according to our checks, also on 3rd August, when this fact-check has been written...

It Is Not True that the West is Plundering Ukraine’s Historic Heritage

Photo: Screenshot from video There is no evidence in support of the claim about plundering and “kidnapping” Ukrainian cultural treasures. Such claims from the post...

The Frog Logo on Food Products Has Nothing to Do with Bill Gates or the “Golden Billion”

Photo: Rainforest Alliance The logo of the Rainforest Alliance is not the golden poison frog, but the red-eyed tree frog. The frog on the logo...

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...

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...

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...

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...