Fake: Kyiv prevented Donbas residents from voting in the elections
“Official Kyiv” is taking the right to vote away from residents of Donbas in Ukraine’s presidential elections. This fake was distributed by Russia’s First...
Fake: Conscription notices will be handed out at voting stations
Ukrainians are being misled by reports circulating in media, social media, and even on notice boards outside apartment buildings in Lviv oblast, that army...
Fake: “Dead souls” in the voters’ list — a frequent occurrence in Ukraine’s elections
Ukrainian and Russian media outlets are spreading reports citing election monitors from “Uspishna Varta” who said that, as of 11 AM, “one of...
Ukrainian outlets Vesti and Strana.ua on Presidential Elections in Ukraine: Fake Narratives, Heroes and...
Author: Anastasiia Grynko, PhD
Fieldwork and Coding: Artem Laptiiev
For ‘Stop Fake’
March 2019
Inroduction
News and news-making processes are no longer narrowly focused solely on media practices related...
Fake: EU and US Opened a Criminal Case Against Poroshenko
A number of Russian and pro-Kremlin media distributed information about criminal cases allegedly opened against Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko in the European Union and...
StopFake News #227 with Marko Suprun
Fake: Ukraine denies German election observers accreditation. Petro Poroshenko wanted to exchange Crimea for NATO membership. Foreign troops in Ukraine will destroy the country.
https://youtu.be/F_6DZUnr7UU
5 Years of StopFake: The Evolution of Fighting Against Russian Propaganda in Ukraine
StopFake: How it all began
Five years ago, during the Revolution of Dignity, when Ukraine’s ex-President Viktor Yanukovych went on the run and Russian troops...
Fake: New Language Law Prohibits Use of any Language other than Ukrainian
Ukraine’s new draft law on language has not yet been passed but it is already the source of many a myth, the predominant one...
Fake: Acting Minister of Health Bans Antiseptics
Ukrainians will soon be without basic antiseptics and other first aid staples such as iodine and hydrogen peroxide announced the pro-Kremlin publication Ukraina.ru last...
Fake: Ukraine Denies German Election Observers Accreditation
Pro-Kremlin media went into a frenzy this week claiming Ukraine scandalously refused to register German election observers for the upcoming March 31 presidential elections....