Regional Call for Investigative Journalism Stories

The Metamorphosis Foundation for Internet and Society announces a Regional Call for Investigative Journalism Stories within the Project “Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Hub: Exposing Malign Influences through Data-Driven Watchdog Journalism”...

Missing children from Cleveland cannot be compared with those taken from Ukraine

Photo: Erik Drost on Wikimedia Commons The missing children from Cleveland and those taken from Ukraine cannot be compared at all. The context and circumstances...

The initial reactions: Blowing up Nova Kakhovka Dam on Dnipro River is a dangerous precedent

Photo: Screenshot of the video recording from a drone During the night of 06.06.2023, a large part of the enormous Dnipro dam in the vicinity...

The video with Senator Graham saying “The Russians are dying” is fabricated

Photo: Screenshot from the video It is not true that Graham said “The Russian are dying. It’s the best money we have ever spent”, while...

It is not true that Ukraine is mobilizing minors

Photo: Screenshot from the video There were also attempts previously on social networks to accuse Ukraine of mobilizing children by using videos of young-looking boys....

China and Macedonian higher education: Influence focused on the state universities

The Chinese influence in higher education in North Macedonia is focused primarily on a few state universities in the country, with ongoing cooperation throughout...

Kremlin’s False Narrative: “NATO Is Fighting Russia to the Last Ukrainian” Continues

NATO neither started the military invasion, nor does it have troops in Ukraine. Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022 and Ukraine, as an independent...

Preposterous and unsubstantiated claim that a Russian rocket killed 200 NATO officers in a bunker in Ukraine

In the video with the post, analyst Gilbert Doctorow does not present a single source of evidence for his claim that during a missile...

Military service is voluntary for women in Ukraine

The post disinforms that NATO is pushing Ukraine to fight to the last Ukrainian. This narrative undermines thousands of soldiers in Ukraine, including patriotic...

The West did not mislead Russia and Ukraine to go to war at their own peril, but Ukraine is defending itself against Russian aggression

Ukraine and Russia are not “mislead by the West to go to war at their own peril”, as the post claims, but Ukraine as...

Turkey did not decide to leave NATO and the consulates were not closed because of the earthquake

We assess the post fact-checked as untrue. It is not true to claim that the earthquake was a geologically produced attack, that the diplomats...

Russia has not declared the dollar an invalid payment currency

The claim that Russia declared the Dollar invalid payment currency is out of context. There is lack of Dollars in cash in Russia hence...

It Is Not True that the Russians Announced the Destruction of 830 Ukrainian Combat Vehicles in One Day

What is stated in the title of the text, shared in the post we are reviewing, is not true: “The Russians announced: 830 Ukrainian...

Serbian officials on a disinformation campaign for Kosovo Serbs

The Kosovo Police (KP) on July 7, implementing the decision of the Basic Court in Ferizaj, raided several locations in the municipality of Shtërpcë. According...

Kosovo authorities denounce Russia’s claim of ‘mercenaries killed from Kosovo’ as misinformation

Parallel to the continuation of war in Ukraine, the Russian Federation is aggressively engaging in disseminating false information, including in the region and Kosovo....

Portalb.mk’s Editor-in-Chief Zylbeari: Fight against disinformation expands, we can counteract disinformation with coordinated actions

As fact-checkers, we have faced many attacks in our work, but that is our routine challenge. I wouldn't like to forecast how the war...

Truthmeter’s Editor-in-Chief Petreski: Western Balkans a target of foreign disinformation campaigns; we are working on revealing them

The malign influences which utilize disinformation spreads in the Western Balkans have a regional nature, and, as a result, one disinformation is crossing the...