Deception
European Parliament Report Condemns Spyware Abuses in Greece
Dutch MEP and president of the spyware investigation committee Sophie in 't Veld presents draft findings of the inquiry in Brussels, November 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/OLIVIER HOSLET
Election bans take effect
The election bans have started on May 4 according to the election calendar for the Presidential and 28th Term Parliamentary Elections, which will be held on May 14. Accordingly, surveys, opinion polls, and forecasts will no longer be published.
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Kaili denies kickbacks probe reported in Politico
MEP Eva Kaili, who has been indicted over her involvement in the "Qatargate" corruption scandal, has denied claims made in a Politico report that she is also facing another criminal investigation into fraudulent payments involving four former assistants in the European Parliament from 2014 to 2020.
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EU seeks to debunk ‘green’ claims
The European Union wants to crack down on bogus claims of environmentally friendly products through a directive that will tighten labeling rules and require independent verification.
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Trials in secret
Commenting last week on the nondisclosure of the name of the private school where six students tied up a classmate with fishing line and the frenzy concerning personal data in Greece, I wrote that "soon, the news will say, 'Somewhere, some people tied someone up with fishing line.'"
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Police detain more than 130 in major forex scam op
Istanbul police's anti-cybercrimes unit has conducted a large-scale simultaneous operation against 153 suspects at 88 addresses regarding forex investment fraud and has detained 132 people.
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Ten arrested in northern Greece for computer fraud
Ten people were arrested on Thursday in Thessaloniki for online fraud, police said.
The suspects had created fake websites of legitimate banks through which they copied the personal information and passwords of their victims and used them to transfer large sums of money to their own bank accounts and others abroad.
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Bogus Degrees: Romania Finds Academic Plagiarism Hard to Eradicate
Rooted in the communist era, the politicisation of education remains widespread in Romania, fostering a culture of cheating and deception that's proving tough to root out.
Fake News ‘Virus’ Needs ‘Vaccine’, BIRN Media Conference Concludes
In the wake of regional and global political uncertainties, fake news in Kosovo has gone to another level, a BIRN-organised conference on the eve of International Fact-Checking Day, April 2, concluded on Thursday.
Alternative facts on TV
The term "alternative facts" was coined by Kellyanne Conway, a senior White House aide in Donald Trump's administration, when she tried to justify a lie by then press secretary Sean Spicer, who claimed that the crowd assembled in Washington, DC for Trump's inauguration in 2017 "was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration" in person in the world (January 22, 2017).
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