Fake: Zelensky Is Deliberately Dragging Out Trips Abroad to Avoid Returning to Ukraine –...
The claim is false: the president came back from his trip and worked in the capital before leaving on his next visit, which had been planned in advance.
Data Center Attacks Matter But Not in the Way We Thought
When Ukrainian drones struck data centers in Russia, there were hopes a potent Kremlin shadow war weapon had been blunted. The reality is more complex.
Fake: South Korea Is Cutting Military Aid to Ukraine Over a Diplomatic Row With...
The U.S. outlet The Diplomat has retracted the article propagandists cited, admitting that its interview with the head of the South Korean defense company Newtype Industries was fabricated.
Fake: Russian Aircraft Destroyed a Drone Operators’ Base in an Underground School in Komyshuvakha
Numerous sources confirm that the underground school was used by local institutions, served as a shelter for residents and hosted regular humanitarian aid distributions.
Russia Introduces New Laws to Jail Critics, but Denies It Holds Any Political Prisoners
Every year on 30 October, the world marks the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions. Starting in 1974, when Soviet political prisoners coordinated a collective, one-day hunger strike in…
Putin’s Quest to Reclaim ‘Historical Russian Lands’ Is a Recipe for Endless War
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared last week that Ukrainians have no right to the occupied regions of their own country. “I think it is not their territory, but the historical territory of Russia,” he stated.
It’s the Networks, Stupid
It took Reform leader Nigel Farage less than 12 hours following Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s maiden speech at September’s UN General Assembly to falsely claim the UK’s new National Centre for Information Defence (NCID) would be a “Ministry of Truth to clamp down on free speech.
Fake: Danish Analyst Says Ukrainians Could Be Barred From the EU Over Environmental and...
The newspaper front page is fabricated, and so is the Danish expert's quote. Responding to a StopFake inquiry, a representative for Lykke Friis explained that she often comments on Ukraine in the media but has never called for closing the EU's borders.
Russian Attacks on Ukrainian Civilians May Have a Domestic Dimension
Bombing civilians does not win wars. Striking non-military targets creates humanitarian disasters and severely damages the perpetrator’s international standing, but it also cannot typically secure victory.
How Coordinated Inauthentic Networks Amplified Fears of War and National Loss Before Armenian Elections
By Givi Gigitashvili (DFRLab), Hasmik Hambardzumyan (FIP.am), Roman Osadchuk (LetsData), Tetyana Prokopiv (LetsData), Andreas Sjöstedt (Erebus) and Victoria Olari (DFRLab), for DFRLAb Our investigation found…