Facebook: Expanding fact-checking to photos and videos
By Antonia Woodford, Product Manager, Facebook
We know that people want to see accurate information on Facebook, so for the last two years, we’ve made...
Facebook’s attempts to fight fake news seem to be working. (Twitter’s? Not so much.)
By Laura Hazard Owen, for NiemanLab
Plus: How YouTubers spread far-right beliefs (don’t just blame algorithms), and another cry for less both-sides journalism.
The growing stream...
Real Russians of Miami-Dade County evade law on two continents
By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake
Russia has ordered the arrest of Florida-based businessman Sergey Slastikhin, accusing him of embezzling hundreds of millions of roubles...
Arrested for fact-checking: Kazakh court fines Ukrainian journalist after police break up media workshop
By Chris Rickleton, for Global Voices
A media fact-checking workshop in northwestern Kazakhstan came to an abrupt conclusion on September 15 when police barged in,...
How France beat back information manipulation (and how other democracies might do the same)
By Christine Schmidt, for NiemanLab
“French success resulted from a combination of structural factors, luck, as well as the effective anticipation and reaction of the...
How to Rob Peter to Pay Paul
By EU vs Disinfo
What do you do when one of your heaviest disinformation attacks backfires? You send out way more disinformation attacks and hope...
Fakes Debunked by the StopFake Project between 2014-2017: Narratives and Sources
This analytical report includes the results of research conducted by StopFake analysts based on archived data of debunked messages from Russian media.
The StopFake project...
Would Visiting the U.S. Help Vladimir Putin ‘Humanize’ His Adversary? Fact: Putin Visited Nine...
By Polygraph
John Wight
RT Contributor
“Indeed it is arguable that without his prolonged visit to the U.S. in 1959, Khrushchev may not have been so willing...
Salisbury suspects number one in top 10 “worst hits” of Russian TV
By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake
The interview given by the two suspects in the Salisbury novichok poisonings to RT boss Margarita Simonyan was met...
Denmark’s Defence Against Disinformation
By EU vs Disinfo
Denmark. The fairy tale country of Hans Christian Andersen. A prosperous and advanced Nordic welfare state filled with happy, open-minded people, uniting...