StopFake News #231 with Marko Suprun
Fake: U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker interfering in Ukraine’s internal affairs. EU democracy support efforts are actually colonization methods. Half of Ukraine’s...
Fake: Ukrainian Military Sabotage Elections in Donbas
Representatives of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic have accused President Petro Poroshenko and his administration of suppressing voting in the eastern Ukraine war zone. ...
Fake: Crimeans Ignoring Second Presidential Election Round
Russian publication Komsomolskaya Pravda continues pedaling false information regarding Ukraine’s presidential elections. This time the publication claims that residents of annexed Crimea are ignoring...
Fake: Ukrainian Military Destroying OSCE Drones
On April 21 the pro-Kremlin site Politnavigator published a story claiming that Ukrainian military were actively destroying OSCE drones. Politnavigator claims that in the...
Distortion: Ukraine’s Central Election Commission Ignores the Handicapped in Presidential Poll
Russian pro-Kremlin site NewsFront featured a story last week claiming that Ukraine’s Central Election Commission, the agency responsible for holding elections, did not take...
Fake: Ukrainian Police Report Sharp Increase in Violations during Presidential Poll
The pro-Kremlin online newspaper Ukraina.ru published a story this week claiming that Ukraine’s National Police allegedly reported a sharp increase in election violations during...
Fake: Russian media spreads purported exit poll data of Ukraine presidential election
Russian media outlets Sputnik and Moskovskiy Komsmolets, including Russian propaganda site Ukraina.ru, are citing the All-Ukrainian Academy, an obscure organization that was registered on...
Manipulation: Voters in Ivano-Frankivsk send SOS signals
Propaganda website Tsargrad reported in social media posts that “not everything is alright” in the western Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk given that voters are...
Fake: Elections in Donbas being controlled by “armed Ukrainian punishers”
The Ukrainian ”junta and punishers” are controlling the presidential elections in the unoccupied parts of Donbas. According to this agitprop, “armed Kyiv rebels” are...
Russian influence has become one of the dominant topics of the pre-election discourse: the...
On Friday, April 19, 2019, the coalition of NGOs “Ukrainian Commission on Journalism Ethics”, “Human Rights Platform”, “Ukrainian Media and Communications Institute” and “StopFake”...