Fear and hatred: how propaganda persuades with emotion
Kseniya Kirillova, for Integrity Initiative
As Russian propaganda and disinformation spread around the world, more and more initiatives are being created to expose the lies...
Americans feel they can best distinguish news from opinion in local TV news; worst,...
By Christine Schmidt, for NiemanLab
Only 43 percent of Americans find it easy to distinguish opinion from news on digital news sites or social media,...
Russian Church spokesman falsely compares Ukrainian Church to Nazis
By Polygraph
Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)
Bishop of Russian Orthodox Church and Head of the Department of External Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church
“The Ukrainian authorities want...
Fake: Norwegian Diplomats Recognize Crimea as Russian
A diplomatic delegation from Norway arrived with an official visit to Crimea declared scores of Russian headlines on October 3. RIA Novosti, Channel Five,...
StopFake #203 with Marko Suprun
Fake: Kyiv gives up Crimea. Hungarian Foreign Minister threatens Ukraine with NATO troops. Ukraine responsible for dangerous emissions in Crimea. Ukrainian President’s wife finds...
Kremlin Watch Briefing: Bellingcat has identified Skripal suspect as GRU agent, the Kremlin continues...
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Ruslan Boshirov, one of the two suspects in the Skripal poisoning, has been identified as a GRU colonel by investigators from Bellingcat.
A new...
Fake: Kyiv Lacks Money to Pay Pensions in Occupied Territories
Kyiv can’t pay pensions to people in the Luhansk and Donetsk occupied territories because of lack of funds, declared Russian and separatist media this...
Fake: IMF Policies Deprive Ukrainians of their Land
“The people will be left without land” is one of Moscow’s favorite scare narratives about International Monetary Fund policies in Ukraine. This week saw...
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...