Anticipated flashpoint events likely to fuel disinformation narratives in the Western Balkans during June 2026, identified during May 2026 Subscribe to the monthly newsletter → Western Balkans Watch and Warn: Enlargement momentum,…

hrough the end of May 2026, the Western Balkans are likely to face increased disinformation risks driven by external developments affecting EU integration, particularly political messaging around enlargement, shifting dynamics within the…

The Metamorphosis Foundation has published the research “The Effect of Disinformation and Foreign Influences on Democratic Processes in North Macedonia in 2025,” which analyzes how disinformation and propaganda narratives affect public…

Fact-checkers and all those advocating to preserve the integrity of information in the public sphere are marking April 2 today – the International Fact-Checking Day (#FactCheckingDay), which this year is overshadowed by wars that, as is…

Not only has there been no official statement about the alleged house arrest of billionaire George Soros and the alleged escape of his son Alexander to Dubai, neither from the Justice Department nor the White House, but such news cannot be…

The country has been in pre-accession limbo for 20 years, and support for EU entry has been declining year by year due to blockages, internal political problems, and what citizens see as unfair conditions imposed by the EU and its members.…

Fighting disinformation through legal sanctions is possible but risky. A much broader, comprehensive approach is needed, in which the institutional framework requires the involvement of the civil society sector and the harmonization of…

Negative sentiment toward Bulgaria has been declining over the years, but the eastern neighbor still ranks as the country's primary "enemy." Despite the EU’s repeated emphasis that constitutional changes are a mandatory step for starting…

One of the vectors of Kremlin propaganda in the Western Balkans concerns labelling any ecumenical engagement as a revival of so-called “uniatism”, a concept implying attempts to bring Orthodoxy into communion with the Vatican. Moscow…

Interesting, emotional, and light information. Humorous news that entertains the gullible and much of the media reveals vulnerabilities and paves the way for dangerous disinformation When most media outlets in Macedonia…

In the past year, little has changed in Ukraine’s battlefield, but Russian church manipulation of Orthodoxy has intensified significantly, especially in the Western Balkans, where North Macedonia’s church – the MOC (Ohrid Archdiocese) now…

The Netherlands experienced the bombing of Rotterdam, the arrest of Anne Frank, the Putnam Raid, Operation Market Garden, the Hunger Winter, and many other turbulent events. Nevertheless, Russian spokesman Peskov falsely claimed that the…

The claim that the EU only sanctioned Diana Panchenko and did not sanction “Ukrainian officials who misused European tax money” is wrong. It is an oversimplification of the complex system of sanctions and financial control mechanisms

Putin is once again being attributed a fabricated speech, but it does not appear on official Russian government websites such as Kremlin.ru, which regularly publish his speeches, and even if he did deliver it, its contents are certainly…

Official British military or government sources do not confirm the deployment of combat forces as a regular army. EUvsDisinfo assesses that some of these claims are disinformation

A fringe pro-Russian politician with Albanian and Italian passports, Armando Mema, who resides in Finland, is appealing to Europe to listen to Putin's opinion. Some have falsely described this as an appeal from official Helsinki, although…

The greater the political interest, the greater the tendency to manipulate information, especially in countries with high political polarization, such as the Republic of North Macedonia. Politicians use strong, simplified or distorted…