Fake: Drunken Poroshenko Removed from Kyiv-Moscow Flight
Russian and pro-Russian media falsely reported on September 24 that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had been intoxicated the previous day when he was not...
Fake: REN-TV Shows U.S. Ambassador at Opposition Rally
On September 20, Russian opposition groups held a rally in the Maryino district of Moscow. The event, however, will most likely be remembered for...
Photo Depicting Donbas Boy Looking for His Mother Was Staged
In mid-September, social networkers began actively spreading a staged photo of a boy walking amidst shelled buildings. The post accompanying the photo claimed that...
Photo Fakes: Party of Regions Billboards for DPR Elections
On September 17, the news site informator.lg.ua reported that the Party of Regions would participate in “elections” in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR)....
Russia Has Weaponized Its National Trauma
The Kremlin’s drive to weaponize information for the sake of rallying an already traumatized population behind an unrecognized, unjust war is leaving deep-seated scars...
UK Regulator Ofcom Backs BBC in Russian TV Case
The BBC has won a case against Russian TV channel RT, which claimed the corporation faked a report on Syria.
The station said the BBC...
Putin’s Information Warfare in Ukraine: Soviet Origins of Russia’s Hybrid Warfare
Russia has been using an advanced form of hybrid warfare in Ukraine since early 2014 that relies heavily on an element of information warfare...
Bellingcat Published Report on Russian Military Crossing the Border of Ukraine
International investigative group Bellingcat published a report on Russian military crossing the Ukrainian border.
As Bellingcat states, the current state of the conflict in...
Russia in ‘Information War’ with West to Win Hearts and Minds
The crisis in Ukraine has unleashed what some see as a new bout of information warfare between Russia and the West.
For nearly a decade,...
StopFakeNews #52 [ENGLISH] with Michael Getto
This week Michael Getto, a business and electoral consultant, is the StopFake News guest anchor. Media circulate a fake letter, supposedly from a Swedish...