Fake: Western Ukrainians don’t know Ukrainian
Russia’s federal news agency RIAFAN published a story claiming that residents of western Ukraine don’t know the Ukrainian language. According to RIAFA official Ukrainian...
Fake: Shipbuilding disappears in Ukraine
Russian publication Ukraina.ru published a story this week claiming that shipbuilding as an industry had all but disappeared in Ukraine.
The publication’s source for this...
Kremlin Watch Monitor. August 15, 2016
The Atlantic Council published our analysis of how Russian domestic propaganda portrays Western leaders.
Together with the Semantic Visions we analyzed over fifty-nine million articles published in the...
It’s time to fact-check all the news
Political reporters are showing that fact-checking isn’t just for fact-checkers, Bill Adair wrote for Poynter.
After Donald Trump declared repeatedly last week that President Obama...
Only 18% identifies with Kremlin-backed “DNR” – survey
A new survey finds only small fraction of “DNR” residents identifying themselves as a “DNR” citizen. However, this number is prone to grow. Ukraine...
How Russian Propaganda Portrays European Leaders
Russia’s efforts to spread disinformation in other countries as part of a hybrid war against the West sometimes make us forget that the media...
StopFakeNews #95 with Marko Suprun
The latest edition of StopFake News with Marko Suprun. Among this week’s fakes: claims that Ukrainian military bars OSCE monitors access to the war...
Fake: Ukrainian politicians support Crimea sabotage
The publication Ukraina.ru manipulated the content of a Facebook post by Ukrainian MP Semen Semenchenko, in which he allegedly justifies subversion in Crimea and...
Milosevic ‘Exonerated’? War-Crime Deniers Feed Receptive Audience
Strange mid-summer news: A U.K.-based pundit, in an op-ed piece in RT, sensationally claims that the late Slobodan Milosevic has been "exonerated" by the...
Russian and Ukrainian versions of the Crimea “sabotage plot”
The fallout from Russia’s accusations of Ukraine planning a sabotage mission in occupied Crimea that the Kremlin’s security forces had allegedly foiled is far...