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Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 13/01/2023 Posts spreading on social media claim that cell phone towers, routers and other devices serve as weapon systems through which the US government targets citizens with radiation. On December 10, 2022, ISTINA Telegram account published a video which features a voice of an unidentified male person speaking […]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, member centers of See Check, a regional network of fact-checking organizations in Southeastern Europe, have witnessed how the dissemination of false and doctored information on social media platforms and online media can harm the public’s ability to form viable decisions about health issues and lower professional standards in journalism. Social Media […]
Original article (in Serbian) was published on 25/11/2022 The web portal Nulta tacka, known for spreading anti-vaxxer narrative, published an article titled “Study: One in every 500 young children who received the Pfizer vaccine was hospitalised”. The title, however, is manipulative – the study does exist, but it stated that out of 7,806 observed children […]
Original article (in Serbian) was published on 21/09/2022 The claim that COVID-19 vaccines are 98 times more dangerous than the underlying infection is spreading rapidly on Twitter. It came from a conservative American website that normally publishes disinformation about COVID-19 vaccines. The site used a non-reviewed study that dealt with risk and benefit assessments in […]
Original article (in Serbian) was published on 08/09/2022 When you combine the coronavirus pandemic and the last name “Rothschild”, you get the perfect conspiracy theory. A document from the US Patent Office on patenting a system for testing the new coronavirus, submitted by Richard A. Rothschild, has been spreading on domestic social networks these days. […]
Original article (in Serbian) was published on 25/08/2022 What do you think when you read that the US government has published official data according to which vaccines against the coronavirus increase the risk of getting cancer by as much as 143,233 percent? Recently, these claims have been shared in numerous groups on Viber, Facebook and […]
Original article (in Slovenian) was published on 15/07/2022 “The Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine leads to lower fertility in men, shows new peer-reviewed study,” was the claim made in a 5 July article on the web portal Planet Lepote. The piece quoted a study published in the journal Andrology on 17 June that focused on the male […]
Original article (in Serbian) was published on 14/07/2022 “Monkeypox arose as a result of the Pfizer vaccine”, claims British conspiracy theorist David Icke, emphasizing an argument that in countries where the Pfizer vaccine against Covid is administered, there has been an increase in people infected with monkeypox. However, this is not proof that Pfizer affects […]
Original article (in Serbian) was published on 17/06/2022 “Another untested vaccine” this, is how the anti-vaxxers in Viber groups that promote conspiracy theories and the treatment of the coronavirus with ivermectin describe the vaccine against the HPV virus (human papilloma virus), which has recently been given in Serbia as well. This vaccine, however, is not […]
Original article (in Serbian) was published on 11/05/2022 A post with dramatic “new Pfizer data” was published on the Viber group “Doctors and parents for science and ethics”, which is known for its anti-vaccine attitudes and promotion of ivermectin. A member of the group claims that out of 270 pregnant women who were monitored by […]