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...
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...
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...
Creating a Trust Toolkit for journalism
Over the last decade newsrooms have spent a lot of time building their digital toolbox. But today we need a new toolbox for building...
Goebbels Techniques Inspire Russian Propaganda
Russian media are incensed that Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels’ diary will be published in a Ukrainian translation.
With monotonous predictability, the Kremlin claims Ukrainians...
Fake: Ukrainian Naval Ships Frozen
Ukrainian ships are frozen in ice, Russian media declared last week. The Defense Ministry television channel Zvezda, Sputnik, Moskovsky Komsomolets, Argumenty I Fakty all...
Google has banned 200 publishers since it passed a new policy against fake news
The company routinely weeds out “bad ads.” Now it weeds out more bad ad publishers, too.
Google kicked 200 publishers off one of its ad...