Fake: Hungarian Foreign Minister Threatens Ukraine with NATO Troops
This week several Ukrainian and Russian sites disseminated fakes claiming that the Hungarian foreign minister threatened Ukraine with NATO troops. In reality Hungary’s Foreign...
Fake: Ukrainian President’s Wife Finds True Ukrainian Identity Only in the US
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s wife Marina allegedly said that true Ukrainian identity is found in the United States. This claim was disseminated by the...
The Disinformation Maps Aimed at Tearing Our World Apart
By EU vs Disinfo
With a quick move, the camera zooms in on the map of Ukraine. One by one, pieces of Ukrainian territory get...
Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga
By Bellingcat Investigation Team
Bellingcat and its investigative partner The Insider – Russia have established conclusively the identity of one of the suspects in the poisoning...
Fake: Protective Levee on Ukrainian Territory Damaged
Scores of Russian media reported this week that a levee on Ukrainian territory separating lake Sivash from an acid waste accumulator facility belonging to...
Figure of the Week: 20
By EU vs Disinfo
Facebook is opening a “War Room” to protect elections from disinformation attempts on the social network.
Scheduled to become operative on 24 September, the...
Russian TV host calls war on Georgia Moscow’s ‘operation for enforcement of peace’
By Polygraph
Vladimir Solovyov
Russian TV talk show host
“It was an operation for the enforcement of peace.”
Source: Rossiya 1, September 23, 2018
FALSE
It was a war.
Vladimir...
Russian election meddling in the US and beyond
By EU vs Disinfo
On Thursday 20 September 2018, the US targeted 33 individuals and entities with sanctions over interference in the American Presidential election in 2016.
This...
Investigators Were Not Silent, Following a New Russian Claim on MH17
By Polygraph
Nicolas Dhuicq
A spokesman for the Debout La France (France Arise) party
"We are unfortunately living in a propaganda era, when media and the Western...
Facebook: Expanding fact-checking to photos and videos
By Antonia Woodford, Product Manager, Facebook
We know that people want to see accurate information on Facebook, so for the last two years, we’ve made...