Fake: UNICEF Accuses Kyiv of Aggression against Donetsk and Luhansk
Venezuela’s Telesur television station aired a story on February 19 about children affected by two years of war in the Donbas region. Telesur used...
Polish TV broadcasts Moreira’s “Masks of the Revolution” on Maidan shooting anniversary
On 21 February Polish channel TVN24 broadcasted the scandalous film “Ukraine. Masks of the Revolution” by Paul Moreira.
The documentary has been widely criticized for...
Hard Labor for Woman Who Reposted Online Criticism of Russia’s Actions in Ukraine
A Russian district court has sentenced Ekaterina Vologzheninova, a single mother from Yekaterinburg, to 320 hours of labor for reposting materials critical of Russian...
StopFakeNews #72 with Brad Wells
This week editor Brad Wells guest hosts StopFake News. This week’s fakes include a doctored photograph with swastikas in western Ukraine, fake territorial claims...
Fake Document: Ukraine Aims to Thwart Netherlands Referendum
A copy of a document purporting to be a Ukrainian security services plan to thwart the April 6 Netherlands referendum on the EU Ukraine Association...
Fake: Saakashvili Wants IMF out of Ukraine
Russia Today published an article entitled “Saakashvili wants to throw the IMF out of Ukraine”. In the article RT maintains that the former Georgian...
EU breaks taboo on ‘Russian forces in Ukraine’
The EU has broken its taboo on referring to Russian forces in east Ukraine in its official documents, Andrew Rettman writes for EUobserver.
It said in...
Fake: Italian Journalist Claims Ukrainians Fighting on Side of ISIS
Italian journalist Lucia Goracci while reporting from the Syrian city of Aleppo points to graffitti written in Cyrillic, attributes it to Ukrainians and implies...
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...