September 23, 2022
Greece, Politics
The Turkish leader’s charges against Greece are fake news and deeply disappointing, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview to CNN late on Thursday. The Greek PM is in New York to attend the 77th United Nations General Assembly meeting. He is scheduled to address the Assembly on …
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July 1, 2022
Greece, Politics
Prominent justice reporter Ioanna Mandrou complained in a shocking denouncement on Friday about “an organized disinformation plan to court editors” regarding the impeachment of former SYRIZA deputy Justice Minister and the prosecutor who had investigated the Novartis scandal in Greece. “With an unanimous decision, ex deputy Justice Minister Dimitris Papaggelopoulos …
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March 29, 2022
CORONAVIRUS
Dimitris Kouvelas, professor of clinical pharmacology at the Aristotle University and a vocal critic of the vaccines against Covid-19 and the coronavirus containment measures, went on trial in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Tuesday for disseminating misinformation regarding the Covid-19 vaccine. Kouvelas was put under investigation and indicted last year after …
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November 28, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
A public prosecutor in Athens has pressed charges against 20 people spreading fake news about the Covid-19 pandemic on internet and social media as well as inciting others to disobedience regarding protection measures. The Cuber-crime Division of the Greek police has submitted to the prosecutor two file cases on Friday, …
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November 17, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
A criminal code provision that Greece’s parliament adopted on November 11, 2021, makes it a criminal offense to spread “fake news.” The new Law could lead to journalists being jailed. The Human Rights Watch calls on the Greek government to immediately move to revoke the provision, which is incompatible with …
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October 19, 2020
Politics, World
The European Union needs to come up with a strategy to counter disinformation about 5G technology or risk false claims derailing its economic recovery and digital goals, a group of 15 countries including Poland and Sweden said. Conspiracy theories that the novel coronavirus may be linked to the wireless technology …
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July 30, 2020
Greece, Politics
Greece’s Ministry of National Defense categorically dismisses as “fake news” reports mainly on Turkish websites that “the Greek Army intends to procure remote-controlled or unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) of Turkish construction.” The Ministry categorically denies these reports and notes that “it reserves all its legal rights to deal with the …
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May 10, 2019
Greece
Greece’s main opposition party New Democracy has been playing dirty ahead of European and local elections and on the occasion of the confidence vote in the Parliament. On Wednesday during the debate in Parliament, ND leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis claimed that the deceased father of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and a …
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April 1, 2019
World
The European Commission in Athens organizes a special event on April 1st exclusively for bearded Greeks. The event is supposed to be a campaign against Fake News, however, it does not addresses all citizens in the country. “Cut the beard. Stop Fake News. See the clean face of truth,” is …
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October 2, 2018
Lifestyle
It was supposed to be a scoop but it turned to be a fake news story dismissed by those directly involved. Hollywood star Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson had made a one-million euro donation for an excavation site in Greece and Hanks was to be honored for this, the …
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August 30, 2018
Arts, Culture
Greek and international media including news agencies like Associated Press and mainstream media like NY Times fell victim of a hoax claiming that prominent Greek film director Costa Gavras had died. The hoax was posted on social media on Thursday afternoon. “I am happy to be alive,” prominent Greek director …
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August 26, 2018
Refugees
A video that went viral in many countries purported to show a television crew staging migrants drowning on a beach in Crete. Greek Director Eleni Vlassi was shooting a historical documentary on a beach in Crete when, unknowingly, she found herself accused of staging a drowning of migrants by dozens of …
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August 13, 2018
Economy
While Turkey’s currency crisis continues also on Monday, Erdogan’s regime believes to have found who is responsible for the crisis: it is social media accounts that “who shared posts to provoke the rise in the dollar exchange rate” and spreading fake news. Shares in Europe’s major banks lost further ground …
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June 18, 2018
Greece
Fake News had a party on Sunday, as police and protesters clashed for more than three hours in Psarades and Posideri, Northern Greece, while Greece and FYROM officials were signing the Macedonia Agreement. The most stirking Fake News was the one based on unfounded rumors that a “woman first fell …
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December 18, 2017
Greece, Politics
“You must inform the society about what we are doing and stop the spreading of fakes news by the media,” Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told the board of the Hellenic Banking Association at a meeting in his office on Monday. Tsipras was pointing out at the furore in mainstream media …
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October 16, 2017
Refugees
More than 1,880 refugees and migrants arrived on the Greek islands in the first half of October, setting local authorities on alert. At the same time, Berlin accuses Athens of tricking with the numbers in order to hide that thousands of migrants illegally cross the Balkan route and reach Germany. …
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February 23, 2017
Politics, Turkey-GR
Turkish media reported on Thursday afternoon that a helicopter of the Turkish Coast Guard feel in the Aegean Sea after having conducted low flight near the disputed islet of Imia. According to Turkish Milliyet, the helicopter fell in international waters, and that both the Turkish and Greek Coast Guard were …
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