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Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 28/02/2023 For more than a decade, web portals in the local language have been sharing a fictional interview with former CIA agent Robert Baer. Quotations from the “interview” in which Baer allegedly confirms that “the CIA broke up Yugoslavia” are also viral. All this, however, is a complete […]
Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 28/02/2023 For years, there have been claims that the USA deliberately destroyed Yugoslavia, for which various alleged evidence is provided. Raskrinkavanje analyzed three such “pieces of evidence”, which regularly appear in articles, videos and posts on social networks for at least seven years. On November 27, 2022, the […]
Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 07/03/2023 Almost 30 years after the first Markale massacre, the media continue to publish articles denying the facts related to two crimes that happened in this market in which Sarajevo citizens were killed. After the wars in which Yugoslavia fell apart, the media was one of the levers […]
Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 16/03/2023 While reporting The New York Times’ coverage of the US refusal to provide evidence of Russian crimes in Ukraine to the International Criminal Court, Sputnik manipulatively attributed to this paper the claim that the Pentagon “sided with the Russian military”. On March 9, 2023, an article was […]
Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 17/03/2023 A photo of a battle tank stuck in the mud with a Russian flag is being shared on social networks, with false claims that it was captured by Russian forces near Bakhmut. In recent weeks, the world media has focused on the fighting around Bakhmut, a city […]
Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 17/03/2023 False claims are being shared on social networks suggesting that a grave with hundreds of corpses of members of the military forces of Ukraine was found near the Bogdanka mine in Poland. On March 2, 2023, the Facebook page Serbian Info Warriors posted a status suggesting that […]
Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 14/03/2023 At the beginning of March, certain web portals published manipulative articles in which it was falsely claimed that “American intelligence officers admitted” that Russia reacted to an existential threat in Ukraine. On March 8, 2023, the web portal RT Balkan published an article featuring details from the […]
Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 02/03/2023 After the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, “conspiratory” claims about intentionally caused artificial earthquakes are being shared on social networks. On February 9, 2023, the “conspiratory” Facebook profile of Marko Kraljević Znate Koji posted a video featuring a description with a claim that “man artificially causes earthquakes” […]
Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 24/01/2023 Supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory are sharing a fictional history of this movement as well as old false claims about US political events. On January 10, 2023, one of the Facebook profiles of conspiracy theorist Vesna Curguz posted a short “history” of the QAnon movement, in […]
Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 24/01/2023 Some media reported that the Polish public broadcaster showed a map featuring a part of the territory of Ukraine annexed to Poland. This kind of map, however, was never shown on that television. On January 17, 2023, the web portal Fakti published an article claiming that a […]