Friday, September 26, 2025

StopFakeNews #118 with Cynthia Sularz

The latest edition of StopFake News with Cynthia Sularz. This week’s fakes include renewed accusations of neo-Nazism against Ukrainian footballer Roman Zozulya, claims that...

Human Shields in Donetsk: Launching Grads near a Residential Area

By Bellingcat This report was written in collaboration with the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT). On 31 January 2017, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine recorded...

We are not paid agents of Russia, we do it out of conviction

We have found a Jobbik activist, a young communist, a Russian convicted of vandalism and a neo-Nazi among the anonymous editors of one of...

The BBC is using ‘slow news’ to fight fake news

By Jessica Davies, Digiday The BBC is taking a stronger stance on fighting the online spread of misinformation, having launched a dedicated lie-debunking unit at the heart...

From Fake News to Fake Opinion

By Brian Mefford, Atlantic Council A few weeks ago, a colleague asked why I was a part of an organization called the Center for Global Strategic...
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Spanish Media Again Accuse Ukrainian Footballer of Nazism

Spanish media are once again rife with stories accusing Ukrainian footballer Roman Zozulya of Nazism. StopFake already debunked similar accusations six months ago, when...

Fake: Kyiv Government Admits City Smog Caused by Low Grade Coal

The Ukrainian newspaper Vesti published a story this week claiming that the recent smog enveloping Ukraine’s capital Kyiv was by caused by the city’s...
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Fake: Separatists Regain Control of Avdiivka

Russian Defense Ministry television channel Zvezda declared this week that the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic  had retaken Avdiivka, a town in Donetsk oblast close...

StopFakeNews #117 with Nina Jankowicz

The latest edition of StopFake News with Nina Jankowicz. This week’s fakes include Ukraine‘s New Holiday – Day of the Avenger, Kyiv’s new language...

Fake: UN Gives Russia Right to Seize Ukraine in 2014

This week Russian media site Polit Online published a story claiming that the United Nations, responding to a request by former Ukrainian President Viktor...