StopFakeNews #69 with Irena Chalupa
This week, Irena Chalupa, journalist and Fulbright scholar hosts StopFake News. Among this week’s fakes: Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Lies about Russia’s Budapest...
Fake: the Netherlands Accuse Ukraine of criminality in the MH17 Investigation
Russian media have reported that the Netherlands accused Ukraine of criminality during the investigation of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 which crashed over eastern...
Fake: EU Countries Massively Denying Visas to Ukrainians
The newspaper Vesti has published a story with this misleading headline: “Ukrainians in mass rush for visas: such hopelessness not seen even in the...
Russia Media Scaring Moldova with Fake Restitution
Pro-Russian media in Moldova are spreading news of the imminent restitution of historical land and property held by Ukrainian citizens to Poland and similarly...
Ukrainian Library director to remain under house arrest on ‘extremism’ charges
A Moscow court on Jan 27 extended for a further 3 months the house arrest imposed on Natalya Sharina, Director of the Ukrainian Literature...
Internet Trolling as a hybrid warfare tool: the case of Latvia
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Russian Media Calls Mentally Unstable German Citizen “Refugee”
Russia’s Channel Five television channel published a story entitled “Refugee pushes 20 year old girl under a train in Berlin”. The man who allegedly...
Fake: Lavrov Lies about Russia’s Budapest Memorandum Obligation to Ukraine
During a January 26 press conference summing up Kremlin’s foreign policy in 2015, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced that Russia did not violate...
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.
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