Spokeswoman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry Accuses Facebook of Working With ISIS
Maria Zakharova, the colorful spokeswoman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry, accused Facebook administrators of working for the Islamic State, after the network temporarily unpublished one...
Fake: Ukrainian Currency’s Collapse “Greatly Exaggerated”
Russian media have interpreted the recent currency fluctuation in Ukraine as a complete collapse of the national currency, the hryvnia. The recent nationalization of...
Fake Videos Illustrate Renewed Fighting in Russian Separatist Occupied Eastern Ukraine
Scores of Ukrainian and Russian media published a video this week of what purports to be a battle between Ukrainian military and Russian separatists...
Russians Increasingly Skeptical of ‘False’ and ‘Biased’ News
The number of Russians who think media reports are false or biased has doubled in the last 12 months, a report by Russian journalism...
StopFakeNews #113 with Romeo Kokriatski
The latest edition of StopFake News with Romeo Kokriatski. Among the disinformation debunked this week: unhappy with Ukraine, Washington looks to replace President Poroshenko,...
Fake: “Slut” Café Opens in Lviv
Russian and Ukrainian media were up in arms last week about a new café that allegedly opened in Lviv with the scandalous name “First...
Fake: Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry Accuses EU of Betrayal
Russian media this week declared that Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry accused the European Union of betrayal. Russia’s official news agency RIA Novosti, Vesti and Ukraina.ru...
Facebook has a plan to fight fake news. Here’s where we come in
By Benjamin Mullin and Alexios Mantzarlis, Poynter
Facebook announced today that it is taking several steps to reduce the reach of fake news. One of...
The real history of fake news
By David Uberti, CJR
In an 1807 letter to John Norvell, a young go-getter who had asked how to best run a newspaper, Thomas Jefferson...
Fake: Ukrainian Army Tank Crushes Car with Passenger
Last November scores of Russian media reported that a Ukrainian army tank crushed a civilian car with three passengers in southeastern Ukraine. The source...