Fake: Ukrainian Children Forced To Play with Stuffed Hitler Toy
At the end of July the Kremlin propaganda machine came up with a new fake that even surprised the seasoned StopFake team. Ukrainian children...
Fake: Foreigners Buying Land in Crimea. Sanctions Not Working.
Russian media are running stories claiming that foreigners are buying up land parcels in Crimea and the sanctions the West imposed on Russia because...
StopFake #196 with Marko Suprun
Fake: Ukrainian soldier defects to separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. Russia continues trying to discredit the open source investigation organization Bellingcat. Is a picture...
The number of fact-checkers around the world: 156… and growing
By Mark Stencel, for Duke Reporters' Lab
he number of active fact-checking projects around the world now stands at 156, with steady growth driven by expanding...
Mystery surrounds case of Russian journalists slain in Africa
By VOA News
(Moscow) - The deaths of three Russian journalists investigating their country’s military presence in the Central African Republic last week has cast...
Addressing the Aeroflot MH17 Conspiracy Theory
By Aric Toler, for Bellingcat
On 8 August 2014, the Security Services of Ukraine (SBU) held a press conference at the Ukraine Crisis Media Centre...
Russia’s latest attempt to smear Bellingcat over MH17 – unsuccessful
By Polygraph
Dmitry Polyanskiy
First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Mission to the UN
"We also have a lot of reasons not to trust particularly Bellingcat...
Old disinformation finds fresh ground in Serbia, targets the EU
By EU vs Disinfo
No, in fact the EU is not “legalising paedophilia”. But a controversial TEDx talk about the nature of paedophilia has recently incited fighters...
#PackOfLies: Propaganda by proxy
It is vital for Kremlin’s representatives to convince the West that the disinformation spread by them is not just a position taken by Moscow...
Figure of the Week: 32
By EU vs Disinfo
Since the US election in 2016, Facebook has worked with improving its knowledge of and resilience towards information operations that are using the...