Hoax

COMMENTARY: Romale, Bill Gates does not want to track you, vaccinations against COVID-19 will not kill you and do not involve microchips

14.1.2021 12:04  full story

MEP Peter Pollák, a Romani community member from Slovakia, posts footage of his vaccination against COVID-19 to combat conspiracy theories influencing the community

30.12.2020 16:33  full story

The other Czech pandemic: Disinformation about anti-COVID vaccination. Romea.cz refutes the most frequent hoaxes and manipulations

30.12.2020 12:18  full story

Czech Health Ministry to refute disinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic next year

15.12.2020 10:43  full story

Slovak fascist politician says he is mixing cough medicine with vodka for his COVID-19, authorities warn that is dangerous

30.10.2020 9:09  full story

Czech MP publishes long-refuted fake video purporting to show "refugees" attacking a police vehicle

25.8.2020 8:10  full story

Czech local politicians hold stormy meeting with non-Romani and Romani residents where long-refuted antigypsyist hoaxes and stereotypes resurface

24.7.2020 10:25  full story

Czech Interior Ministry centre refutes most frequent disinformation about COVID-19 online

17.4.2020 12:43  full story

Disinformation about COVID-19 in Czech first spread from Russian server, according to new analysis

3.4.2020 11:42  full story

Busting the COVID-19 myths circulating in Czech

21.3.2020 12:04  full story

Coronavirus-related HOAX in the Czech language alleges USA is moving troops to Europe

16.3.2020 16:34  full story

Czech racists spread their annual summertime lies about free entry to swimming pools for Romani people

3.7.2019 6:20  full story

Antigypsyist hoax returns to Czech Internet alleging that Roma get free public transportation

20.6.2019 10:26  full story

Absurd hoax continues to spread that Roma NGOs want Czech Television series cancelled

12.2.2019 14:12  full story

HOAX: Romani actor allegedly "forbidden" by NGO to use the word "gypsy"

9.2.2019 9:16  full story

Czech police officer claims to have filmed journalists "staging" migrants drowning, his superiors see nothing wrong with that

15.10.2018 10:54 Czech Police officer Marek Chrastina of Šumperk, Czech Republic, went to Crete on vacation in July and filmed a video on the beach there which he shared through online social networks. The footage went viral mainly by being reposted through Czech-language anti-immigrant, disinformation websites.  full story

Czech Police arrest two Romani men for attack on police, confirm media exaggerated the incident

17.4.2018 6:32 Police have charged two men in connection with an assault committed against a police patrol in the town of Krupka (Teplice district). Teplice Police spokesperson Daniel Vítek informed the media of the charges on 13 April.  full story

Analysis: A propaganda war needs angry, defiant, disgusted, nerve-wracked people - and the Czech Republic qualifies

8.1.2018 18:12 The return to the self-serving lie about a Greater Russia is costing the Russians absolutely everything, including their self-respect. The idea that it is still possible to destroy everything gives them the strength to continue.  full story

Czech online media spread disinformation about refugees in Sweden

21.11.2017 11:26 A misinterpretation of an ongoing Swedish study by the National Board of Forensic Medicine is making the rounds of the Czech-language Internet. Some journalists are reporting that between "76 to 86 %" of all the minors (the alleged numbers vary) who have requested asylum in Sweden are actually adults, and this has become grist to the mill of all those opposed to immigration.  full story

Czech online tabloids recycling long-debunked antigypsyist hoaxes alleging Roma get free transportation, washing machines

24.7.2017 7:11 An online hoax against Romani people in the Czech town of Most that is several years old and alleges that they are getting free public transport and that the town is paying for them to go to the spa or take taxis is once again spreading through the Czech-language Internet. Besides being currently shared on Czech-language social networks, the hoax was published by the news server Eportál on 18 July.  full story