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Workshop Held on Recognizing and Responding to Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference

On 19 November, as part of the 2025 Media Literacy Days, the Institute of Communication Studies organized a workshop with members of the Pensioners’ Association – Kumanovo, focused on disinformation, foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI), and hybrid attacks. The event explored how “ordinary” disinformation differs from coordinated influence operations driven by foreign actors with…

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Car Window Broken from Paying Tolls, but Hearts Full of Stories: Zherovjane Shows the Strength of Local Energy

On 20 November 2025, in Zherovjane, something more than an ordinary workshop took place. The village buzzed with ideas, stories and creative energy. At the “Liria” Primary School, local content creators, activists, teachers, doctors, professors and residents gathered for one purpose: to share their challenges and their pride—stories that will later become the “raw material”…

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Media Literacy Workshop Held: Is It a Trick or Worth My Click?

On 19 November, a media literacy workshop titled “Is It a Trick or Worth My Click?” was held at the “Petar Pop Arsov” Primary School in Skopje, organized by the Institute of Communication Studies and intended for fifth-grade students. The fifth graders of “Petar Pop Arsov” demonstrated strong critical thinking skills, showing they can recognize…

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Comparative Analysis and Recommendations on Combating SLAPP Lawsuits Presented

As part of the 2025 Media Literacy Days, an event dedicated to strengthening the media community’s resilience to legal pressures on journalists—focusing on Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation (SLAPP)—was held on 20 November at the premises of the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services (AVMU). The central part of the event featured the presentation…

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Handbook for Spotting Disinformation Launched

A Handbook for Spotting Disinformation was prepared under the Twinning Project on “Enhancement of Capacities of the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services and the Public Broadcasting Service”, in cooperation with Thomas Rathgeb, Head of the Department of Media Literacy, Programme and Research at the State Institute for Communications in Baden-Württemberg, Federal Republic of…

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High-school Students Learned Story-Telling through Film

More than 100 young creative people shot short videos at the workshops for short feature and documentary films at the “Giffoni” Youth Film Festival, which took place from 4 to 8 October in Skopje. The Short Feature Film Workshop guided high-school students from the development of an idea, through filming, to post-production, while introducing them…

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