Fake: Ukrainian Rock Star Calls for Destruction of Current Rule in Ukraine

Ukrainian rock star and activist Svyatoslav Vakarchuk calls for the destruction of Ukraine’s current government announced Russia’s REN TV, the RBK agency, Vechernaya Moskva,...

Fake: Economic Disaster Awaiting Ukraine

On June 18 several pro-Kremlin media circulated the distorted claims of Ukrainian MP Vadim Rabinovich who predicts that Ukraine’s economy is heading for hard...

Figure of the Week: 6.4%

By EU vs Disinfo This week, Russian state media more than tripled the defence budget of Latvia, a NATO member and neighbour of Russia. The bogus...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: Nord Stream II is a strategic mistake

Topics of the Week In a public appeal published by the European Values Think-Tank, 50 security experts from 18 European countries outline the reasons why Nord...

CONIFA alternative World Cup boosts Russia-backed separatism

By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake In the World Football Cup that you probably haven’t heard of, which took place in London earlier this month,...

Propaganda war against Ukraine’s aspirations to gain Tomos on autocephaly

By Oleksandr Sagan , theologist, for Lb.ua Among the external factors opposing the receipt by the Orthodox Ukrainians of Tomos from the Patriarch of Constantinople,...

Militarised Disinformation: When Highway Renovation becomes a Western Attack “to the East”

By EU vs Disinfo This week, the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign zoomed into Europe. Its magnifying glass focused on highway D1 in the Czech Republic, connecting...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: How sanctioned Russians are benefitting from the World Cup

Topics of the Week The Brexit campaign had close links to Russia and its ambassador to the UK According to Donald Trump, Crimea is a part of Russia because...

StopFake #189 with Marko Suprun

Fake: Ukraine does not want to claim its POWs from Occupied Territories; Ukrainian soldiers wearing Russian uniforms spotted in Donbas; UN condemns persecution of...

There’s a big difference between the number of people who worry about fake news...

Plus: Facebook looks to hire “news credibility specialists,” and Reuters tries to figure out if highly partisan sites are gaining traction in and outside...