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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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Manipulations by Vecernje novosti: No one forces primary school students to “choose a gender”

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 25/07/2022 In Germany these days, there is a controversy surrounding the proposal of a new law that should make it easier for people to change their gender in documents. If the law is passed, this will mean that young people over the age of 14 will also have […]

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Tabloids: The Hague Court found that there was no genocide

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 11/07/2022 On the day marking 27 years since the genocide in Srebrenica, Serbian tabloids traditionally deny that this crime, in which between seven and eight thousand Bosnian Muslims were killed, can be called genocide. Informer and Alo deny the genocide, stating that “the Court in The Hague and […]

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Huggy Wuggy: Creating unfounded moral panic about a stuffed toy

Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 29/06/2022 The moral panic over unsubstantiated claims that the Huggy Wuggy plush toy is linked to problematic lyrics on YouTube has moved from social media to the regular media. On June 14, the web portal Zenski recenziraj published an article with the following title: The toy that moms […]

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Ukraine still exports food, but it is much less than before the war 

Original article (in Croatian) was published on 04/07/2022 People on social media are wondering how it is possible that weapons are imported into Ukraine, but food cannot be exported. We’ve checked what’s really going on. “Hundreds of thousands of tons of weapons are imported into Ukraine from Europe so that the war in Ukraine will […]

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What if electric cars run out of power in rush hour?

Original article (in Croatian) was published on 11/07/2022 Almost a thousand and a half times, a post was shared on Facebook in which electric cars are baselessly declared to be a scam. In parallel with the news about summer traffic and crowds due to the increased number of tourists, a post started spreading among Facebook […]

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The “climate lockdown” conspiracy theory has no basis in actual facts

Original article (in Croatian) was published on 13/07/2022 Internet conspiracy theorists are using an article by renowned economist Mariana Mazzucato to claim that a “climate lockdown” is ahead of us. Misinformation announcing the alleged introduction of “climate lockdowns” began to spread on social networks. The last such example was published on the 2012 Transformation of […]

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The director of the Srebrenica Memorial Center refuted claims made by Vecernje novosti

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 15/06/2022 Vecernje novosti published a claim that “soon only those who sign with their own hand that genocide took place in Srebrenica will be able to enter the Potocari Memorial Center”. As they claim, based on their “knowledge”, it is a “dangerous idea which is only the first […]

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Antivaxers in the campaign against the HPV vaccine falsely claim that it causes infertility

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 […]

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Vladimir Putin is not Denzel Washington after all

Original article (in Montenegrin) was published on 06/06/2022 Vladimir Putin is widely reputed to be a macho man among his supporters both in and outside of Russia. So far, we have been seeing images of him practicing judo techniques, playing hockey and exploring Russian wilderness shirtless. All his escapades never go unnoticed.  It is no […]