Moscow Pre-Schoolers Being Taught to Hate America
In what is a clear violation of Russian law but fully in line with Kremlin policy, kindergarteners in Moscow are being taught to hate America and to ignore any relatives they may have living there about what life is like in the United States, according to Andrey Chernov.
Brazil’s Largest Newspaper Quits Facebook, Accuses it of Harboring ‘Fake News’
One of Brazil's largest and most influential newspapers decided to rebel against Facebook by ceasing to publish content on its page, which has nearly six million followers.
Fake Russian Story Stokes Anti-Immigrant Fears
"In the EU countries, the flashmob #sorry launched by residents of Germany, Sweden, Denmark and other European countries has spread.
Why Moscow fears NATO
Moscow has manufactured a thick mist of disinformation about NATO in order to disguise its expansionist policies in Eastern Europe.
Doubling down on ”Nazism”
Amid the noise of disinformation, one of the regular techniques that comes through again and again is the repetition of extreme language to criticise, abuse or denigrate.
Figure of the Week: 0
“Not a single Russian-language school is left in Kyiv. This sensational headline recently appeared on Ukraina.ru, a Russian website well-known for spreading disinformation about Ukraine.
Fake: Ukraine Loses 50% of its GDP To Russia Sanctions
Last week scores of Russian media disseminated a statement by a Ukrainian member of parliament who claimed that Ukraine allegedly "lost half of its GDP because of Western sanctions against Russia.
Measuring the reach of “fake news” and online disinformation in Europe
In this factsheet by Richard Fletcher, Alessio Cornia, Lucas Graves and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, we provide top-level usage statistics for the most popular sites that independent fact-checkers and other observers have identified as publishers of false news and online disinformation.
StopFake #169 with Christi Anne Hofland
Fake: Russian language woes in Ukraine; Ukraine leads post-Soviet states in anti-Semitism; HIV and AIDS from Donbas sweeping across Ukraine. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3IniFL3eJc0&feature=youtu.be
StopFake Helps Schools to Teach Media Literacy
StopFake became a partner of Learn to Discern – Schools (L2D-s) project, a first-of-its-kind media and information literacy initiative. The project was launched on February 2 in Kyiv.









