disinformation

The post shared on Facebook is presented in the context of a propagandist portrayal of the West and the EU as a godless entity

Photo: pixabay.com Western countries did not vote against the “resolution for stopping military actions and attacks between Israel and Palestine”, as the post claims, they just did not support Russia’s resolution to condemn violence and…

The new website is a vital resource for the public, journalists and policy-makers for revealing foreign malign influence in the Western Balkans by exposing and mapping the flow of disinformation and propaganda

Citing an official announcement of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, Ukrainska Pravda writes that Russia was preparing to discredit Ukraine, aiming to influence the allies’ attitude and impact the supply of Western weapons. Security…

Photo: president.gov.ua The post is sharing untrue information that Ukrainian women will be mobilized in the Army. It refers to a recent legal provision that mandates women with medical or pharmaceutical backgrounds to register for…

Image by Freepik Last month, the tension between the West and Moscow increased, as well as the tensions between individual Western countries and Russia bilaterally - with frequent use of several classical disinformation narratives by…

Photo: Screenshot made by fact-checkers The viral video with the alleged error on the billboard аmidst Times Square in New York with the inscription “Glory to Urine” instead of “Glory to Ukraine” is a complete lie and disinformation…

Photo: part of the post with disinformation One cannot claim - as the post does - that the anti-religious civilization, or the West, is fighting against Russia. Russia wants to impose itself as the main global defender of the traditional…

Photo: Screenshot of a part of the post Bearing in mind that NATO is not at war with Russia and is not sending soldiers to the front in Ukraine, as well as that the Army of the Republic of North Macedonia participates only in NATO and EU…

Illustration: Pixabay Ukraine does not have a lower rate of inflation than North Macedonia, as the post claims. In August 2023, Ukraine and North Macedonia had similar inflation rates (8.3% in North Macedonia and 8.6% – in Ukraine).…

Photo: Screenshot from a video The photographs shared in this Facebook post, in fact, are cut from a video of an event recorded back in 2014. Therefore, claiming that Prigozhin is alive on the basis of these photographs is manipulative…

Photo: Screenshot from a video The post we are fact-checking contains a series of manipulations and untruths by presenting the Russians as some kind of heroes fighting for a piece of land as though it was theirs, without even mentioning…

El Gouna. Photo: Marc Ryckaert (MJJR), CC BY-SA 2.5 , via Wikimedia Commons The owner of the company that runs the luxury resort in Egypt, Naguib Sawiris, tweeted that it was disinformation that Zelenskyy, or whoever from his family,…

Photo: pixabay.com The fabricated post spreading false information about the pharmaceutical industry, portraying it as unethical, immoral, lucrative and greedy, but at the same time depreciating trust in state institutions, is at least…

Having interrupted his vacation in Nevada, the president of the USA, Joe Biden, visited Maui. He saw the damage inflicted by the terrifying fire that swallowed the island and claimed more than 100 victims. Evidence of his visit is the…

Krivolak, June 2019, from the drill “Decisive Strike 19”. Photo: mod.gov.mk The claim that military drills with depleted uranium ammunition – which is carcinogenic - are taking place in the Krivolak military training range has…

Photo: Screenshot from the video It is not true that the video calls upon Ukrainian women to transform their uteruses into baby-making machines. One can easily see in the original video that it is intended for foreign families concerned…

Photo: Screenshot from CCTV Proposition 47 adopted in 2014 in California, which is not applicable in all states of the US, reclassifies felony theft like shoplifting under 1,000 dollars, from an offense into a misdemeanor. That does not…