Original article (in Serbian) was published on 20/10/2023; Author: Ivan Subotić Web portal NS Uzivo published yesterday the news titled “Ljubljana is the first city in the world where FOOD IS DELIVERED BY DRONE: Hot burek delivered to the mayor”. Although delivery of burek by drone indeed took place in the capital of Slovenia a little […]
Fake News Tragač (Serbia)
Original article (in Serbian) was published on 16/09/2023; Author: Ivan Subotić What is the highest possible title a man can have? King? Emperor? Prime Minister, President? If we were to rely on stories from social networks, our famous scientist Nikola Tesla would answer this question with “being a Serb”. In the tweet of the user @MAKSIMUSMAGNUS, […]
Original article (in Serbian) was published on 10/09/2023; Author: Teodora Koledin At the end of August, the web portal Nulta tacka portal published a text about a “new official study”, the results of which suggest that people vaccinated against Covid-19 have twice the chance of being infected with this virus. Who is Steve Kirsch? The author […]
Original article (in Serbian) was published on 25/09/2023; Author: Marija Zemunović A reader asked us to check the statements made by marketing expert Petar Vasic about ChatGPT in a short video posted on Instagram. The video was taken from Milan Strongman’s podcast, where Vasic, as a guest, said the following, among other things: “When OpenAI was […]
Original article (in Serbian) was published on 08/07/2023; Authors: Stefan Kosanović, Ivan Subotić i Stefan Janjić The day before yesterday, the Twitter account @protivdictature published a table which – as stated – listed “all bots”, along with “name, surname, district, city and links to accounts on Twitter”. Is this table of SNS online activists credible? Considering […]
Original article (in Serbian) was published on 01/08/2023; Authors: Stefan Janjić, Ivan Subotić The editorial office of FakeNews Tragac received a report regarding the comment “The grain deal is meaningless”, written for Politika by Aleksandar Bocan-Harchenko, the ambassador of the Russian Federation in Serbia. Among other things, he states the following: We searched the available data […]
Original article (in Serbian) was published on 04/08/2023; Author: Ivan Subotić What unites Gavrilo Princip and Milutin Milankovic? Serbian origin, some would say. A vision, others might say. “Pecat”, we add, in case you missed the mental acrobatics from one of the recent covers of this paper. In the edition from June 16, while answering the […]
Climate disinformation from our alley
Despite the scientific consensus that global warming is the result of human activity, despite the experience of increasingly extreme weather conditions, climate sceptics still have an audience. How do they reach many people and what climate disinformation is circulating in Southeastern Europe? The Earth today is on average 1.1 °C warmer than in the pre-industrial […]
Original article (in Serbian) was published on 07/05/2023 Eight children and a school guard were killed on May 3 in the Belgrade elementary school “Vladislav Ribnikar”, and seven more people were injured. After the massacre, for which a thirteen-year-old student of that school is suspected, a high level of unprofessional reporting was observed in the […]
Original article (in Serbian) was published on 17/05/2023 Several web portals wrote about an American study that allegedly proves that “mass dying was not due to Covid but due to ventilators”. We contacted one of the authors of the study, in charge of communication, and he confirmed that this interpretation of the research results is […]