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How a fashion accessory worn by Montenegrin fans became the “Ustasha symbol” on social media

Original article (in Montenegrin) was published on 20/10/2023; Author: Jelena Jovanović Sports events always come with intense excitement, strong emotions, and a fierce drive for victory among both players and fans, especially when it comes to national team competitions. During a recent soccer match between Serbia and Montenegro in Belgrade, there were some scattered scuffles in […]

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Revival of a false statement about NATO’s plan to destroy Orthodoxy

Original article (in Montenegrin) was published on 05/10/2023; Author: Nina Đuranović Citizens of our region are divided when it comes to NATO, otherwise a go-to topic for disinformation, conspiracy theories and other manipulations. NATO is often depicted as an enemy of our culture and religion, as evidenced by a Facebook post that calls attention to the […]

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Poland extraditing Ukrainians, not NATO soldiers

Original article (in Montenegrin) was published on 7/09/2023; Author: Marko Vukajlović An information came up in the regional media about NATO soldiers bound to end up on the fronts across Ukraine, which can serve as a good bait to lure the readers, but is a classic clickbait, completely ungrounded in fact. A headline appeared on one […]

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Marketing scams: Lies about Jokic’s arrest and exploiting of RTCG

Original article (in Montenegrin) was published on 7/09/2023; Author: Marko Vukajlović Raskrinkavanje, as well as colleagues from the region, have on multiple occasions been warning of celebrity endorsement scams, which are using public figures without their knowledge and consent. The formula is pretty much the same: they all had some health issue that they couldn’t possibly […]

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NATO exercise “Immediate Response 23” has not been relocated from Montenegro

Original article (in Montenegrin) was published on 29/05/2023  The NATO military exercise called “Immediate Response,” which began in Montenegro last week, appears to be a thorn in the side of many anti-NATO elements in our country. An example of this is an article on the IN4S web portal, which sarcastically presents the “information” that the exercise […]

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No one will make us eat bugs

As soon as the coronavirus pandemic began to subside, those who consider everything to be a conspiracy against humanity, started sharing new incredible theories – about the intention of the power centres to make the population used to eating insects and forcing people to eat them. Industrial food production significantly affects the emission of gases, […]

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Call for proposals for the development of a communication strategy for the regional SEE Check network

The SEE Check network is currently implementing a project financed by the European Union called “The SEECheck network – fight against disinformation through a network of fact-checkers”. One of the project’s activities is the development of a communication strategy for the SEE Check network. We invite communication experts and agencies to submit their offers for […]

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The violence shocked the region, but not the tabloids

The entire region was taken aback at the beginning of May, when two mass murders took place in Serbia, in which 17 people, including children, lost their lives. As if the shock was not enough, the media rubbed salt into the wound, as well as users of social networks, who resorted to sensationalism, bad journalistic […]

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Musk didn’t say it was good that Bahmut was besieged

Original article (in Montenegrin) was published on 22/03/2023 The founder of Tesla, SpaceX and since recently, the majority owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, is often the actor of various disinformation. The latest one is related to the war in Ukraine. We recorded a post on Facebook in which the following statement was attributed to Musk: […]

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The head of the EP delegation said that he expected “more EU flags”, not “more Montenegrin flags”

Original article (in Montenegrin) was published on 05/04/2023 After the announcement of the results of the presidential elections in Montenegro, messages from important domestic and international addresses ensued, and some of them referred to the assessment of the quality of the election process. The election process was monitored by the OSCE/ODIHR observation mission, whose conclusions […]