StopFakeNews #66 with Peter Dickinson
This week Peter Dickinson, British journalist and chief editor of Business Ukraine guest hosts StopFake News. This week’s fakes include a story about Ukrainian...
Fake: Drunken US mercenaries on a rampage in Mariupol
Last week several Russian media, including RIA Novosti, cited Eduard Basurin, the so-called “deputy chief of staff of the Donetsk Peoples Republic militia” who...
Fake: Kravchuk: a Ukrainian Crimea is unrealistic
The Russian website Ukraina.ru published a story claiming that Ukraine’s first president is advocating wide state autonomy for Crimea.
The misleading headline, claiming that Kravchuk...
An hour-by-hour look at how a conspiracy theory becomes ‘truth’ on Facebook
Conspiracy theories, hoaxes and other variants of baloney have become so prevalent and intractable on Facebook that we no longer bother to debunk them....
Fake: Merkel Insults Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk
The Russian website Optimist has once again used well respected international media as a source for a fake.
On January 4 Optimist posted a story...
Drowning in a sea of paranoia and propaganda
Today, the perception of Vladimir Putin in Europe is both overblown and distorted, writes Olga Irisova for New Eastern Europe. His most zealous opponents...
Fake: Ukrainian president hospitalized with alcohol poisoning
Russian website Optimist published a story claiming that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was hospitalized in a state of heavy alcohol intoxication.
This fake about Poroshenko...
Fake: Russian Security Council Secretary wants to send Russian troops into the Baltics
On January 2 the Latvian news portal Vesti.lv published a purported interview with the secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolay Patrushev in which...
Fake: Austria to pay a 60 euro subsidy to Chernivtsi residents
Two Ukrainian regional news websites Chernivtsiinfo and Antikor published stories claiming that Austria will pay a subsidy of 60 euros to each working resident...
Russia propaganda machine gains on U.S.
Russia has reorganized and intensified its international propaganda machine so effectively over the past decade that some Western lawmakers and diplomats say Washington now...