StopFakeNews #55 with Marta Dyczok
This week, associate professor at University of Western Ontario Marta Dyczok is the StopFakeNews guest anchor. Russia One falsely reported that Ukraine’s General Staff...
Photo Fake: Boy from Donbas Used to Protest Muslim Migrants in Sweden
A recent photo fake about a Donbas boy, presented as an orphan searching for his parents among the debris of a destroyed Ukrainian town,...
Confused About Russia’s Intentions in Syria? Putin Wants You to Be
It's not easy being a Western diplomat dealing with Russia. First there's the cold, the poor pay and the long hours. Then there's the...
Funding crunch for RT
The budget for RT (former Russia Today) will amount to R19 billion (€271 million) in 2016, or R1.84 billion less than this year.
According to...
Russia Today to launch a French-language news channel in Africa
The public Russian television, Russia Today (RT) is planning to introduce a French version of its news channel in Africa. The Russian channel will...
An odd way to make friends
RUSSIA’S behaviour in Syria resembles the fable of the scorpion who promises not to sting the frog that carries him across the river, but...
Photo Fake: Ukrainian Soldier Kisses American Flag
A bogus photo depicting a Ukrainian soldier kissing an American flag has been popularly spreading on the Web over the last months.
The photo was...
Fake: No Russian Troops in Donbas According to the Ukrainian General Staff
On October 7, Russia One’s anchorman Andrey Kondrashov falsely reported on the news program Vesti that Ukraine’s General Staff had denied the presence of...
One of the Russian Internet’s Founding Fathers Wants to ‘Erase Syria From the Map,’...
Moscow’s intervention in Syria is having some funny consequences back home in Russia. One of the strangest episodes in this story is Anton Nossik’s...
MH17 – The Open Source Evidence
This report can be downloaded as a PDF here.
Introduction
This report summarizes the open source investigations into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) on...