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....
StopFake #226 with Marko Suprun
Distortion: Ukrainians morally prepared for election fraud. Fake: Ukrainian National Railway runs out of fuel. Weaponizing news: RT, Sputnik and targeted disinformation.
https://youtu.be/06zPgnzNRD4
Fake: Poroshenko Wanted to Exchange Crimea for NATO Membership
Scores of Russian media circulated stories last week claiming that in 2014 Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko allegedly wanted to exchange Crimea for membership in...
Weaponising News: RT, Sputnik and Targeted Disinformation
A few weeks ago, The Policy Institute and the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power at King’s College in London, published...
Fake: Foreign Troops in Ukraine Will Destroy the Country
Ukrainian authorities want to raze the country to the ground – this was the reaction of a Russian Duma official to Ukrainian President Petro...
Fake: Europe May Cancel Visa-Free Travel Because of Measles Epidemic in Ukraine
The pro-Kremlin site Ukraina.ru announced that a measles outbreak in Ukraine can lead to Ukraine losing its visa free status with the European Union...