Governments making “fake news” a crime risk stifling real journalism — accidentally or intentionally
By Alana Schetzer, for NiemanLab
Lumping together disinformation campaigns with news the government says isn’t in the “public interest” is a recipe for abuse.
The rapid...
Fake: Ukraine Buys Broken Locomotives from US
A number of Russian and pro-Kremlin media reported last month that Ukraine had purchased low quality Evolution type locomotives from the United States. Tezar...
Fake: Pope Presents Putin with Guardian Angel of Peace Medal
The recent visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Vatican inspired pro-Kremlin media to come up with a rather fawning fake, that Pope...
Chornobyl Fear: StopFake with Marko Suprun (No. 242)
Russia reacts to the HBO television miniseries with a spate of fakes and distortions.
https://youtu.be/qdQE5GKXvsI
European Commission summarises its struggle against disinformation
In June, European Commission with Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy presented the report on the...
Fake: Finland Does Not See a Russian Military Threat
The Russian website Voyennoye Obozrenye (Military Review) completely distorted an interview with the new Finnish Defense Minister Antti Kaikkonen, claiming that the minister “does...
Surrender to Russia & Control Georgia: StopFake with Marko Suprun (No. 241)
Fake: Ukrainian Army pulling back from contact line with Russian separatist occupied territories because of personnel and equipment shortages. Georgia protests engineered by the...
Fake: Ukrainian Army Pulling Back from Contact Line Because of Personnel and Equipment Shortages
This week Russian and separatist media announced that Ukrainian troops were allegedly leaving their position on the contact line between Ukraine the occupied territories...
Fake: European Union Ceases to Believe in NATO and the US
European Union residents do not see any threats from Russia despite all the efforts of the US to convince them otherwise, RT declared last...
Fake: Georgian Protests Engineered by the West and Ukraine
Western geopolitical engineering has brought chaos to Georgia and launched a surge of Russophobic protests and anti-Russian hysteria, declared scores of Russian publications this...