Ukraine Will Collapse: StopFakeNews with Marko Suprun (No. 269)
Fake: Ukrainian collapse is inevitable, other regions will secede. Armenia resumes flights to Crimea. Poland introduces censorship about World War II.
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Fake: Poland Introduces Censorship about World War II on US Orders
Russian media reacted to Poland’s parliamentary resolution condemning the spread of Russian propaganda about Polish history by declaring that the United States are backing and financing Poland’s anti-Russian policies. On Washington’s orders Poland refuses to accept historic facts, resorts to rewriting the history of World War II and justifying Nazism, Russia’s leading pro-Kremlin publications declared. Raising the hysterical rhetoric up a notch, the newspaper Vzglyad even claims that Poland intends…
Fake: Armenia Resumes Flights to Crimea
Last week Russian media launched a wave of fake stories claiming that Armenia and the Russian occupying forces of Crimea agreed to resume flights between the annexed Ukrainian peninsula and the Armenian capital Yerevan. Citing Alexei Chernyak, the chairman of the Crimean parliament’s tourism committee Komsomolskaya Pravda claims that Pegas Fly, a Russian airline based in Krasnoyarsk, has received permission to operate seven flights a week on the Simferopol-Yerevan route.…
PS752 is Karma for MH17: StopFakeNews with Marko Suprun (No. 268)
Fake: MH17 Karma: Russian media on Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crash in Iran. US and Ukraine preparing new Chornobyl for Russia. Putin’s Local Militia’s in Ukraine.
Kremlin Watch Briefing: Countering Russian and Chinese Interference in Europe
NEW REPORT: Handbook on Countering Russian and Chinese Interference in Europe Analysis of the texts of annual intelligence reports has proven what the European Values Center for Security Policy has been claiming for years. The hostile influence operations are not a random occurrence, nor are they a phenomenon that concerns a few countries only. In fact, our research has uncovered a broad consensus among the intelligence agencies in terms of…
Native verification tools for the blue checkmark crowd
By Mike Caulfield, for NiemanLab Among the many differences between older social software and post-Facebook social software is the peculiar flatness of the newer platforms. Older tools — recognizing that the user of social software is the group, not the individual — empowered those invested in health of communities with tools to help keep the community healthy. Effective social software was oriented not toward the average member of a community,…
Karma for MH17. Shot Down to Start a War in the Middle East. Russian Media on Ukrainian Airliner Iran Crash
Russian media began peddling diverse versions of what brought down the Ukrainian Boeing 737 passenger jet within hours of its tragic crash near Tehran. A leading narrative is that the US shot the plane down in order to start a war in the Middle East. The Iranian side meanwhile was claiming that the plane had malfunctioned. Here is a roundup of the main themes about the crash featured in leading…
Fake: US and Ukraine Preparing New Chornobyl for Russia
Russia is facing a new Chornobyl disaster warned Tsargrad, a television station affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church and Russia’s security forces. The US is preparing an atomic apocalypse for Russia using Ukraine, Tsargrad declared earlier this week after the Zaporizhzhia South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant’s third reactor on shut down briefly on January 4. According to Tsargrad the shutdown was caused by the American nuclear fuel that the power…
Ukraine Violates Treaties: StopFakeNews with Marko Suprun (No.267)
Polling proves that Ukraine is ready to capitulate because reporting by Russia’s Defence Ministry TV channel Zvezda never lies and Ukraine violated the Budapest Memorandum.
Fake: NATO Preparing for War with Russia
NATO has begun preparations for a full scale war against Russia, scores of Russian sites declared as 2019 was drawing to a close. The Russian General Staff is confident that NATO is getting ever closer to Russia and increasing its presence along Russian borders in order to draw the Kremlin into World War III, Russian experts claim. Western leaders no longer hide their Russophobia as they continue to militarize the…
