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An Army of Trolls Pushing the Russian Narrative on MH17: Who Are They?

By Jan van Dijk and Robert van der Noordaa, for UkraineWorld Co-authors: Valentyna Bykova, Yuriy Diachenko, Valeriy Pan’ko, Ivanna Vlasiuk, Tetiana Hyrina The army of trolls pushing...

Loneliness in the group (on Facebook)

It is not a secret that the StopFake Polska staff uses in their work different tools, including those publicly available. One of them is a group on...

Putin’s Negationist History: StopFakeNews with Marko Suprun (No. 292)

Latvia moves to restrict distribution of seven RT programs. RT and Sputnik achieve higher social media engagement than reputable media outlets in France and...

Fake: Ukraine Declares ‘Garbage War’ on Hungary

Russian pro-Kremlin sites NewsFront and Regnum featured stories claiming that a war over rubbish was brewing between Hungary and Ukraine. Tysa River pollution flares...

Fake: Turkish Pensioners Provided with Homes and $300 Pensions

The Ukrainian segment of Facebook is teeming with information claiming that Turkish President Erdogan will issue free housing, health insurance and $300 monthly pensions...

Fake: Terrorists Arrested in Crimea

Hizb ut-Tahrir is banned in countries such as Germany, Russia, China, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan and all Arab countries except Lebanon, Yemen and the UAE....

Fake: Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry Acknowledges that Crimeans are Forever Lost to Ukraine

Russian publications Politnavigator and Imag.One disseminated stories last week claiming the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry admitted that the inhabitants of Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula that...

The StopFake Supervisory Board Position About the Escalating Information Attacks Directed Against the Project...

The StopFake Supervisory Board Position About the Escalating Information Attacks Directed Against the Project Team We are convinced that brutal, untrue articles that discredit the...

Fake: Russian Constitutional Changes Make Crimea Forever Russian

The week long vote on constitutional changes in Russia that took place from June 25 through July 1 created quite a stir in both...

Fake: Merkel to Help Kyiv Liquidate Ukrainian Cities

Russian propagandist publication Ukraina.ru claims that under the approval of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Ukrainian government intends to eliminate coal mines, the only...