Fake: 20 Soldiers Die From Leaked Mysterious Virus
On January 26 the webside Pravda.ru ran a news item claiming that 20 Ukrainian soldiers died and 200 were hospitalized with the deadly California...
Latvia: Re:Baltica Battles Right Wing Propaganda from… Russia
Latvia-based OCCRP partner Re:Baltica has published a series of investigations on right-wing propaganda and misinformation about Latvian media which reporters found originated from Russia.
Vladimir...
Putin’s Selective Reading Of Soviet History
Russian President Vladimir Putin often accuses the West of distorting history. But in his latest comments about Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin and his successor,...
StopFakeNews #68 with Irena Chalupa
This week journalist and Fulbright scholar Irena Chalupa hosts StopFake News. Among this week’s fakes that we debunk: claims that jihadists participated in a...
Fake: Central Banker Accuses Pensioners of Taking Billions Out Of Ukraine
The Russian language news site Vesti.Versii.Sobytia published a story claiming that the head of Ukraine’s National Bank Valeria Hontareva accused the country’s pensioners of...
The Fake Facebook News Driving Iraq’s Wars
A group of dedicated journalists is fighting to set the record straight about lies on social media that feed the flames of sectarian hatred,...
‘Russia is interested in ruining Ukraine’s image ahead of Dutch referendum’ – Fedchenko
It looks like Kremlin's traditional tactics to use fake video threats, says StopFake.org website founder
Ukraine Todays Viewpoint is joined by the director of Mohyla School...
Russian propaganda supports the immigrant-rapist myth
Russian media have joined Europe’s far-right parties and groups in demonizing immigrants as rapists.
Consider this story:
Evil Muslim migrants rape a 13-year old Russian girl...
FAKE: Canada Cancels Visas for Ukrainians
The news and current affairs web site Hyser published a story claiming that Canada has cancelled visas for Ukrainian citizens.
“This unanimous decision was supported...
In What Way Ukrainian Banks Were “Ranked” the “Most Unreliable”
On January 21 Ukrainian and Russian media dedicated a great deal of attention to the claim that seemingly at the World Economic forum in...