Fake: Lviv Celebrates City Day with Swastika
A photograph seemingly showing a city celebration in Lviv featuring a swastika is actively being circulated in social media. The photograph features a girl...
The Useful Idiots Show
During the 1950s, there was a term that was sometimes used to describe people who were exploited by Soviet communists to publicly support their...
Fake: Poland, Hungary and Rumania Have Territorial Claims against Ukraine
The website Ukraina.ru published a story claiming that Ukraine is anticipating increased tension on Serpents Island because of Romanian territorial claims.
Serpent Island is a...
Masks of Revolution: When Journalists Lie
It is not often that Stopfake analyzes TV shows, especially French television programs. Ukraine: Masks of revolution, a documentary by French journalist Paul Moreira...
Lobbying for Brexit: How the Kremlin’s media are distorting the UK’s debate
The Kremlin wants Britain to leave the EU. That, at least, is the impression given by the coverage of the so-called "Brexit" debate by...
‘Russian Identity is the Soviet Identity of Today,’ Russian Government Advisor Says
Supra-national Russian identity today, Anton Bredikhin says, is the successor of “the Soviet man” and “the Soviet people” and is thus different from and...
StopFakeNews #71 with Michael Getto
This week public policy and electoral consultant Michael Getto guest hosts StopFake News. This week’s fakes include a story about what Pope Francis did...
Fake: Criminal Case Launched Against Saakashvili
The Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and other Russian and Ukrainian media reported that a criminal case had been launched against Odessa governor Mikheil Saakashvili...
How international media failed Moldova’s protesters
There’s more to Moldova's protests than “pro-European” versus “pro-Russian”, Mihai Popșoi wrote for Open Democracy.
Moldova’s image as the poorest country in Europe is rivaled only...
Kremlin Censor Finally Brings Down the Hammer on the RuNet’s Pluckiest Freedom Advocates
Russian censors have finally decided to block the website of RosKomSvoboda, a Russian Internet freedom and human rights organization, by adding it to the...