StopFakeNews #83 with Irena Chalupa

The latest edition of StopFake News with Irena Chalupa. This week’s fakes include Russian media claims the west is losing the information war, Russian...

Fake: Ukrainian MP Proposes Mass Deportation of Crimeans

Russian media were awash with stories earlier this month claiming that Ukrainian MP Andriy Senchenko was proposing that all persons who had moved to...

Fake: West Loses Russian Propaganda War

The West has lost the propaganda war, RIA Novosti declared in a recent article and Western countries are increasingly concerned that they cannot develop...

Fake: Tatars Demand Renaming of Crimea

Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta published a story on May 19 claiming that the Crimean Tatar executive representative body, the Mejlis was demanding constitutional changes...

Russian propaganda: Children of Donbass in a fishbowl

Unrecognized DPR and LPR usually known as Eastern Ukraine territories are filled by Russian propaganda garbage nowadays. Kremlin regime created an awful creature of...

Fake: Veneto Regional Council Considers Crimea Part of Russia

Russian web sites are eagerly disseminating a story about the Veneto regional council voting to recognize the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula annexed by Moscow in...

That Guy: This is Why People Hate You II

Have you ever met That Guy? Maybe you met him in high school. Maybe it was in college or in the military. I think...

The Daily Vertical: No Criticism Allowed (Transcript)

They came for Lenta.ru. They came for VKontakte. They came for the bloggers. They marginalized Dozhd-TV. They tamed Kommersant and Gazeta.ru. They've threatened and harassed...

Top Russian pundit confesses to using falsified Nazi document as part of investigative report

Dmitry Kiselyov, one of Russia's most prominent television pundits and the head of the news agency Rossiya Segodnya, acknowledged that his TV program used...

The danger of Russian disinformation

Fifteen years ago, the idea that foreign disinformation might be a problem for European countries seemed ludicrous. Free media looked as triumphant as free...