Explained: Ukraine’s Case Against Russia at The Hague
Analyzing the evidence presented by Ukraine accusing Russia of supporting “terrorism”
By @DFRLab
On Monday, oral observations began for Ukraine’s case against Russia at the International...
‘Fake news’: the best thing that’s happened to journalism
By Charlie Beckett, Director of Polis, LSE
Fake News has upset a lot of people and caused real damage but it’s been good news for...
StopFake #123 with Marko Suprun
The latest edition of StopFake News with Marko Suprun. This week’s fakes include mendacious Russian claims about Ukrainians’ future visa free travel to the...
Fake: Ukraine Uses Video Game as Evidence in ICJ Suit against Russia
Russian newspaper Moskovskyi Komsomolets accused Ukraine of presenting a staged video as evidence at a hearing before the UN International Court of Justice in...
Fake: Ukraine Deliberately Shuts off Water Supplies to Occupied Luhansk
While Russian media were busy disseminating fake stories claiming that Ukraine had deliberately cut off water supplies to the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR)...
Fake: Massive European Demonstrations Supporting Donbas
Russian media reported that on March 5 Europeans staged massive demonstrations in support of Donbas, the eastern Ukrainian industrial region currently occupied by Russian-...
Premiere of “Nothing but lies” documentary film in Kyiv
On the occasion of the third anniversary of the fact-checking project StopFake, a documentary film by Tim White's "Nothing but lies: Fighting fake news"...
Russian state news agency misuses Barents Observer in fake news story
No, Ria Novosti, we have never pointed the finger of blame at Ukraine as the source of a January radiation leak.
By Thomas Nilsen, The...
When is a false claim a lie? Here’s what fact-checkers think
Readers have had enough of the media not calling things by their names.
Take Don Miller, of Littleton, Colorado, for example:
Do you remain asea in...
Here’s Why You Should Worry About Russian Propaganda
By Alina Polyakova, Atlantic Council
“Fake news” is the term du jour in the current discussion on the new media landscape. We knew long ago,...