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False accusations of tearing the flag: from Srpski telegraf (Serbian telegraph) to a fake Twitter account

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 30/07/2022 A post from a fake Twitter profile of human rights activist Aida Corovic, in connection with the protests in Novi Sad, is spreading on web portals and social networks. In the fake announcement, Corovic allegedly admits that she tore up the flag at the protest and that […]

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Affective attachment theory and the “terrible experiment with babies”

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 29/07/2022 A reader reported to us a viral video that spread on Instagram and Facebook in recent months, in which Igor Rakic, founder of the “School of Intellectual Skills” and author of courses on reading and learning techniques, talks about a “terrible experiment with babies”. In his presentation, […]

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Dairy products, cancer and the Chinese: An inspiring story and the accompanying misinformation

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 26/07/2022 Some pages dedicated to health recently shared the text published by Kurir Stil back in 2016. Title – The Chinese do not suffer from cancer: This woman applied their method and beat the disease! This same text was reported by B92 and Web Tribune in 2016, and […]

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Megatrend says once again “No college – no flight” and it is again manipulative 

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 24/06/2022 “No college – no flight” says the private Megatrend University in a new misleading advertising campaign for its College of Civil Aviation. By the way, Megatrend is known for its controversial ads (1, 2, 3), and almost four years ago, FN Tragac wrote about the claim that […]

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Secrets of Antarctica: gloves, souvenirs and restricted areas

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 21/06/2022 The content of a video from the YouTube account “Secret World”, which talks about the interesting things about Antarctica, was suspicious to one of our readers, who thought that some information from the video was incorrect. The editors of FakeNews Tragac contacted experts from the Australian Antarctic […]

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“Objectively” about child organ trafficking: blurred video and insinuations as evidence

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 20/06/2022 “The Ukrainian Red Cross trafficked in children’s organs”, the newspaper Objektiv published in its today’s print edition, referring to the words of the head of the pro-Russian non-governmental organization Narodna Svita, Vladimir Taranenko, stationed in Donetsk. Although Taranenko himself said that “it is still too early to […]

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No, issuing an ETIAS license will not be free for Serbian citizens – the estimated price is € 7

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 23/04/2022 Last week, many media outlets reported (1, 2, 3, 4, 5…) on the new European Union travel information and authorization system (ETIAS), which is expected to be implemented next year. All citizens of countries that “meet the conditions to be part of the ETIAS system” will have […]

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Evergreen photos of empty shelves in Europe: scenes of scarcity for every occasion

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 09/05/2022 Texts equipped with outdated photos of empty market shelves in the EU and the USA, which appeared in the domestic media in March this year, got their successors in the first week of May and expanded to new media. Last week, Informer, Alo, Srpski Telegraf (Serbian Telegraph), […]

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Fruska Gora’s saffron is not news, nor it “brings wealth”

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 19/04/2022 In the past few days, the news was published on several domestic websites suggesting that “THE MOST EXPENSIVE SPICE IN THE WORLD WAS FOUND ON FRUSKA GORA!” (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11). Although the miracle from Fruska gora (1) is mentioned […]

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Accusations at the expense of authentic photograph: too dark to be citizens of Ukraine

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 09/04/2022 Sputnik published an article entitled “Another fake news from reputable Western media”. This “analysis” is based on the insinuation that the photograph used on the cover of the Financial Times (FT) does not faithfully show the crisis in Ukraine because the refugees in the photo are darker-skinned. […]