Surviving Social Media Chaos: StopFake’s Guide
Author - Olena Churanova
In today's world, social media is not only a platform for exchanging information and receiving news but also a battlefield for...
Fake: Poland Estimated Ukrainian Population at Less than 15 Million
Poland did not make any calculations suggesting that only 15 million citizens remain in Ukraine. Nor was it reported that 9.5 million people had...
Fake: Zelensky Buys €18 Million Mansion, Builds Underground Bunker
A real estate company that sold the villa in October denied any connection between the buyer and Ukraine and refuted claims that a bunker...
Fake: Los Angeles Fires Can Not Be Put Out Because Local Fire Department Gave...
The Los Angeles Fire Department made a small donation of unusable equipment back in March 2022. It contained helmets, gloves, boots, medicines — not...
Fake: Photo of the First North Korean Prisoner of War Was Actually Taken in...
The date on the screenshot circulating online is the result of a common technical glitch in Google search results when retrieving posts from Reddit....
Manipulation: During Volodymyr Zelensky’s New Year Speech, Mother Ukraine Monument was Illuminated in US...
The main part of President Zelensky's speech took place against the backdrop of the Mother Ukraine monument, which was illuminated in the colors of...
Googling like a pro: rules for verifying sources with search engines
Author: Olena Churanova
Today's search for anything and everything starts with Google. Or other search engines like Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, and DuckDuckGo. But it is...
Russia uses sports and athletes in propaganda and disinformation efforts
Sports have always played an important role in international politics, but in Russia's case it is one of its key propaganda tools. The Kremlin...
Using migration issues in Russian and Belarusian propaganda
Belarus and Russia are using migration topics to destabilize the political situation in European Union countries and to strengthen their influence in the international...
Fake: Albanian Prime Minister «Thanks Zelensky for Supplying Organs to Europe» via Tirana Airport
Edi Rama, the Prime Minister of Albania, has never said anything of the sort.
The Albanian Prime Minister allegedly called Zelensky his friend and thanked...