StopFakeNews #94 with Michael Getto
The latest edition of StopFake News with public policy and electoral consultant Michael Getto. Among this week’s fakes, more claims that southern Ukraine is...
Russian media mocks new Ukrainian coin commemorating Crimean Tatar deportation
The Russian publication Lenta.ru published a manipulative news story claiming that Ukraine has issued a new coin in which the Crimean peninsula is pictured...
Fake: Spanish media call Ukrainian coat of arms ultra-nationalist and paramilitary
On August 4 scores of Spanish publications circulated a story about Ukrainian footballer Roman Zozulya claiming he arrived in Seville wearing a t-shirt with...
The biggest threat to democracy? Your social media feed
Over the past two decades, the internet has rewired civil society in unprecedented ways, propelling collective action to a radically new level of citizen...
StopFake.org launches new international project
Together with the Polish Centre for International Relations StopFake is launching «Information Warfare on the Internet,” a project devoted to countering pro-Kremlin disinformation in Central...
How the International Media Enables Russian Aggression in Ukraine
If anyone had attempted to report on "German-backed forces" in Nazi-occupied France or "pro-Soviet forces" during the Prague Spring, they would have been dismissed...
Fake: International observers claim Ukraine is ignoring the Minsk agreement
Russian television program Vesti and its corresponding web site reported this week that international observers have verified that Ukraine is ignoring the Minsk agreement.
The...
StopFakeNews #93 with Brian Mefford
The latest edition of StopFake News with political consultant Brian Mefford. Among this week’s fakes, sanctions, Belgium and the Finnish farmer, claims Ukraine is...
From Russia With Love
Love FM’s “News from Russia” just announced that it would stop publishing the “news” due to what it said was “pressure” (read: transparency) and “lack...
French MPs visit Crimea; Russian propaganda celebrates
A group of French parliamentarians recently visited the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014. The visit was not official and did not have...