Fake: Turkey Building New Caliphate in South Ukraine
Russia’s notorious Life news has called the planned Turkish construction of housing for Crimean Tatars displaced by Russia’s annexation of Crimea a New Caliphate...
Opening Cyber Salvo in the French Elections
This is gonna be a very interesting cyber conflict
On Feb 1st, 2017, Wikileaks began tweeting about the candidates in the French election coming up in...
‘Ukrainian regional news site’ linked with Putin Chef’s Internet troll factory
An apparently ‘Ukrainian’ website often quoted in the Russian media has a St. Petersburg address and is probably one of the ‘troll factory’ enterprises...
U.S. Preps for Infowar on Russia
While President Trump is still defending Vladimir Putin in public, American policymakers have finally awoken to Russian intervention in the U.S. democratic process —...
Ukrainian Football for a Strong United Ukraine
Ukrainian football fans have been very active in Ukrainian politics since the Maydan revolution and they have taken a strong stand against Russia’s incursion...
Fake news for liberals: misinformation starts to lean left under Trump
The president’s tumultuous first weeks in office could influence uptick in viral sharing of misleading articles and propaganda that stoke progressive anxieties
While stories of...
Fake: Poroshenko Calls for Ending Russia Sanctions
This week Russian media declared that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was calling for western sanctions imposed against Russia to be lifted. Vesti, RIA Novosti,...
Zozulya, Putin and ‘nazis’ in Ukraine
One piece from the documentary by Michael Andersen about the political role of football ultras and players in Ukraine.
In this connection, they were filming and...
StopFakeNews #118 with Cynthia Sularz
The latest edition of StopFake News with Cynthia Sularz. This week’s fakes include renewed accusations of neo-Nazism against Ukrainian footballer Roman Zozulya, claims that...
Human Shields in Donetsk: Launching Grads near a Residential Area
By Bellingcat
This report was written in collaboration with the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT).
On 31 January 2017, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine recorded...