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The head of the "Freedom and Direct Democracy" (SPD) club in the Czech lower house, Czech MP Radim Fiala, published a shocking video earlier this month on Facebook purporting to show a group of "migrants" allegedly destroying a police vehicle in Italy. The footage is actually from a five-year-old feature film that was on wide release, including in the Czech Republic
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
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
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 storyCzech 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
Czech tabloid apologizes for fake news report claiming video from Chile was from Ostrava
24.7.2017 6:20 The Editor-in-Chief of the tabloid news server Expres.cz, Petr Konečný, apologized on 18 July for publishing an untrue news item about the theft of a television from a hospital waiting room. The tabloid alleged on 16 July that a video of such an incident in San Pedro de la Paz, Chile was from the Czech city of Ostrava. full story
Czech tabloid fraudulently tells readers CCTV footage of theft in Chile was from Ostrava - antigypsyism is the response
18.7.2017 7:16 Czech online social networks are sharing video footage of a young man, accompanied by a woman with a pram and a small child, stealing a television set from the waiting room of a hospital. The video has been viewed more than one million times, and according to the accompanying comments, it is clear that the Czech Internet believes the people in the video are a family - and a Romani one. full story
Czech Republic: Yet another hoax hits senior citizens' inboxes, police need complaints to take action
1.6.2017 9:26 Purveyors of disinformation in the Czech Republic disseminate alarming and deceptive "news" - basically hoaxes - not just through obscure online servers, but also through mass e-mails. One such e-mail is currently filling up the inboxes mainly of senior citizens full story
Internet memes falsely allege celebration of terrorist attack in London
26.3.2017 13:38 A screenshot purported to be of a Facebook broadcast by the Arab television station Al-Jazeera is being shared through online social networks after Wednesday's terrorist attack in London, alleging that Muslim people have been celebrating it. "The Muslim world is laughing after the attack in London," several online social network users are sharing, alleging that the screenshot is proof that Al-Jazeera watchers are glad about the attack and posting "likes" and emoticons featuring hearts and laughter during the broadcast. full story
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