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Hundreds of foreign channels, but very little oversight: Who is shaping Macedonia’s TV landscape?

Macedonia’s television landscape has long extended beyond its national borders — a single subscription package gives viewers access to hundreds of channels from the region and beyond...

Hundreds of foreign channels, but very little oversight: Who is shaping Macedonia’s TV landscape?

Hundreds of foreign channels, but very little oversight: Who is shaping Macedonia’s TV landscape?

Macedonia’s television landscape has long extended beyond its national borders — a single subscription package gives viewers access to hundreds of channels from the region and beyond...

Rokas: The Government Should Establish a National Response to Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference

Rokas: The Government Should Establish a National Response to Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference

Foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) is a hybrid threat aimed at undermining democratic processes. It involves coordinated campaigns by foreign actors who use disinformation, propaganda and manipulation to shape public opinion and sow distrust...

Bots, Portals and Propaganda: How Macedonia Is Being “Brainwashed” from Bulgaria

Bots, Portals and Propaganda: How Macedonia Is Being “Brainwashed” from Bulgaria

While casually scrolling through social media, many Macedonian citizens have no idea who might be behind the portals that bait them for clicks...

Online Radicalisation – a Virus That Is Hard to Recognise and Easy to Spread

Online Radicalisation – a Virus That Is Hard to Recognise and Easy to Spread

Macedonia is not immune to online radicalisation: artificial intelligence, social media and the crypto market make it easier to recruit people for radical, violent and terrorist activities...

Different Governments, Same Pattern of Foreign Influence Through Economic Power

Different Governments, Same Pattern of Foreign Influence Through Economic Power

Lack of transparency and deliberate circumvention of public procurement procedures are the main features of four major investment deals in road and energy infrastructure concluded by different Macedonian governments over the past decades.....

EES – the System Between Real Problems and Propaganda

EES – the System Between Real Problems and Propaganda

Incomplete information and differing interpretations of the EU's new Entry/Exit System are creating a mix of facts and misconceptions at border crossings...

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