NTV Reports of “Insurgent” Children’s Text Book in Ukraine
On October 14, Defender of Ukraine Day, the Russian television channel NTV falsely reported that Ukrainians had allegedly started teaching their children with a...
Fake: Limp Bizkit to Perform in Donetsk and Luhansk
On October 8, the Russian newspaper Izvestiya falsely reported that the American musical group Limp Bizkit would give concerts in the war-torn eastern Ukrainian...
StopFakeNews #55 with Marta Dyczok
This week, associate professor at University of Western Ontario Marta Dyczok is the StopFakeNews guest anchor. Russia One falsely reported that Ukraine’s General Staff...
Photo Fake: Boy from Donbas Used to Protest Muslim Migrants in Sweden
A recent photo fake about a Donbas boy, presented as an orphan searching for his parents among the debris of a destroyed Ukrainian town,...
Funding crunch for RT
The budget for RT (former Russia Today) will amount to R19 billion (€271 million) in 2016, or R1.84 billion less than this year.
According to...
Photo Fake: Ukrainian Soldier Kisses American Flag
A bogus photo depicting a Ukrainian soldier kissing an American flag has been popularly spreading on the Web over the last months.
The photo was...
Fake: No Russian Troops in Donbas According to the Ukrainian General Staff
On October 7, Russia One’s anchorman Andrey Kondrashov falsely reported on the news program Vesti that Ukraine’s General Staff had denied the presence of...
Telegraph’s Crimea Travel Piece Full of Errors
On October 1, in its travel section, The Telegraph published an article by British BBC journalist John Simpson entitled “Crimea’s Charms Uncovered.” In the...
StopFakeNews #54 [ENGLISH] with Jim Kovpak
This week, journalist and blogger Jim Kovpak is the StopFake News guest anchor. Russian and pro-Russian media report that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was...
So this is ‘Putin’s propaganda TV’?
A look at how RT’s chief editor responds to evidence that the network is a political failure
The Kremlin's flagship news network abroad, RT (formerly known...