StopFakeNews #73 with Luke Drabyn
Fulbright scholar Luke Drabyn guest hosts the latest edition of StopFake News. This week’s fakes include an intelligence document that never was, fake UNICEF...
Fake: Bloomberg Announced Giant Deposits Found in Crimea
Russian and Moldovan sites are circulating a fake story which originally appeared last December claiming that a giant gold mine was discovered in Crimea....
Russian Media Distorts Ukrainian Position on the War in Eastern Ukraine
The website Ukraina.ru published an article this week entitled "Kiev promises a quick military victory in the Donbas”. According to the article, Ukrainian Interior...
Russian Media Fabricate a New Revolution with 67 Killed
On the second anniversary of Ukraine’s Maydan revolution, Russia’s official news agency RIA Novosti reported the day was marked with clashes between the Ukrainian...
Fake: Ukrainian Army Exists on Yanukovych Money
The Russian web site Ukraina.ru published a story claiming that “the Kyiv regime is preparing to grab the rest of former president Yanukovych’s assets”...
Fake: UNICEF Accuses Kyiv of Aggression against Donetsk and Luhansk
Venezuela’s Telesur television station aired a story on February 19 about children affected by two years of war in the Donbas region. Telesur used...
StopFakeNews #72 with Brad Wells
This week editor Brad Wells guest hosts StopFake News. This week’s fakes include a doctored photograph with swastikas in western Ukraine, fake territorial claims...
Fake Document: Ukraine Aims to Thwart Netherlands Referendum
A copy of a document purporting to be a Ukrainian security services plan to thwart the April 6 Netherlands referendum on the EU Ukraine Association...
Fake: Saakashvili Wants IMF out of Ukraine
Russia Today published an article entitled “Saakashvili wants to throw the IMF out of Ukraine”. In the article RT maintains that the former Georgian...
Fake: Italian Journalist Claims Ukrainians Fighting on Side of ISIS
Italian journalist Lucia Goracci while reporting from the Syrian city of Aleppo points to graffitti written in Cyrillic, attributes it to Ukrainians and implies...