Inaccurate claims about the number of votes counted in relation to the number of registered voters in the US state of Wisconsin were also shared via Facebook for Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and Montenegrin audiences. 

The post’s author – a non-specific indAividual - claimed that the total number of votes counted in Wisconsin was 110,920 higher than the total number of registered voters in that state. Along with this claim, a picture in English was published with identical claims. 

The Wisconsin Electoral Commission has effectively refuted allegations of more votes than the number of registered voters. The official Twitter account of The Wisconsin Electoral Commission lists the actual number of registered voters, making it clear that outdated data was presented.

Facebook users in Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro disseminated a fake quote attributed to Melania Trump expressing skepticism about vaccines. There is no evidence that Melania Trump ever made an anti-vaccination statement attributed to her in pictures shared on Facebook. 

The text from the analyzed photo, in a conspiratorial tone, says that, “They do not vaccinate their children", although “They” claim that the vaccine is harmless.

Also, although her views on vaccines are not fully known to the public, Melania has supported efforts to develop a vaccine against COVID-19.

Another disinformation related to US elections is a table that has been shared as a post on various social networks with data on voters in seven US states. According to these posts, a smaller number of registered voters were reportedly recorded than those who went to the polls this year. The table contains outdated data, which is not noted in the post.

The table with outdated data was published in an article in Serbia’s Politika, and then shared over multiple Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Claims that the number of voters in seven US states exceed the number of registered voters were present in some U.S. media outlets; Reuters reported and fact checked them as false.

A Facebook post claimed that Germany “violated” the prohibition of the World Health Organization not to perform autopsies on the deceased from COVID-19 disease.

It is also claimed that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is actually a bacterium. None of this is true. Despite the fact that none of that is true, more that 20 Facebook pages have published those claims, reaching a few thousands interactions.

Nor did the WHO ban autopsies of patients who died from COVID-19, particularly in that they have no authority to do so.

Several media outlets, mostly anonymous and from Serbia, “reported” that German Chancellor Angela Merkel was the target of a “car bomb attack”.

True information is that an unidentified man crashed into the fence of the building where the chancellor was at the time. It was not, however, a bomb attack as reported by eight news portals, including: Žena portal, Info news24h, Dnevna novost, Extra vijesti 24h, Balkan Life Today, Čajevi za, Pozitiv media, and Lifestyle dome.

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