StopFake

Since the US election in 2016, the social media giants have been stepping up their action against disinformation and fake accounts in their networks.

On 15 June, Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti published a fake news story, “President of Latvia: the U.S. will not protect Europe from Russia,” intended to undermine popular support for NATO before the Alliance’s summit in Brussels in July.

“Americans always said they had no troops in Ukraine. Source: @RussianEmbassy, July 8, 2018 FALSE The U.S. is transparent about military deployments in Ukraine In a July 8 tweet, the Russian Embassy in London accused the United States of lying about its military presence in Ukraine.

Since Russian annexed Crimea in 2014, Kremlin faithful media regularly feature fakes claiming that Ukraine is preparing a terrorist campaign to destabilize the peninsula.

Some of the individuals tagged in tweets recently by Russian Mission UN (@RussiaUN), which has 31.1K followers, provide insight into who the Kremlin relies on to spread its propaganda message.

That Ukrainians supported Russia in the World Cup even in the conditions of hatred for Russia that Kyiv authorities are disseminating is an important political sign concluded several Russian media in a series…

Official Russian news agencies RT, RIA Novosti and Kremlin faithful media such as EurAsia Daily, Life, Voyennoye Obosrenie and others announced this week that the United States sold Ukraine defective Javelin anti-tank missiles.

It’s been just over six months since RT, the controversial Russian channel funded by the Kremlin, aired its first French broadcast from a sleek green-and-white studio in the outskirts of Paris.

Last night British police announced that 44-year-old Dawn Sturgess had died in Salisbury as a result of Novichok poisoning. She and her partner Charlie Rowley were hospitalised in critical condition on June 30.

Fake: Displaced man from Donbas attacked for speaking Russian. Future Maidan Museum copies Hitler’s architecture projects.