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...
Historical Truth Banned in Russian-Occupied Crimea
Where Russia cannot prosecute for annoyingly inconvenient but entirely provable truth, it opts for bans. It has driven out most independent media from Russian-occupied...
Fake news is a red herring
Fake news, propaganda and "disinformatzya" are changing the media landscape - in the US, Russia and Turkey and across the world. The question is...
A fake fake news checker
A case of double bluff – this was the conclusion Swedish internet users reached after a Swedish website presenting itself as the next in...