The Plot That Was Never Told, Until Zeka Lied on Air
We never told the story. Then Zeka told it for us live, and falsely. How a single unanswered message sparked a dangerous disinformation spiral.
On the evening of 28th May 2025, during a live talk show on Kosovo’s Dukagjini TV, television personality and former MP Milaim Zeka made a sensational claim:
"Shefit t'Kryqit Kuq, Finlandezit, i ke thane po dojn me t'vra Sherbimi Sekret i Kosoves. Edhe ai t'ka vet t'ka thane kush ta ka dhane kete informacion, ke thane Milaim Zeka." Milaim Zeka’s original statement in Albanian.
Which translates to: "You told the head of the Red Cross, the Finn, that the Kosovo Secret Service wanted to kill him. And when he asked who gave you this information, you said Milaim Zeka."
Less than a week later, on 2nd June 2025, appearing on Shqipëria Live on Albania’s Top Channel1, Zeka repeated and embellished this tale on air:
"Let me give you a detail. This journalist who is in the Serbian BIA network, living in London, I will tell you by name, told the former head of the Red Cross during the war in Kukës, a Finn named Christian Wiik, that the Kosovo Secret Service wants to kill you. And when asked who gave t…
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