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...
EU breaks taboo on ‘Russian forces in Ukraine’
The EU has broken its taboo on referring to Russian forces in east Ukraine in its official documents, Andrew Rettman writes for EUobserver.
It said in...
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...
Fake: Lviv Celebrates City Day with Swastika
A photograph seemingly showing a city celebration in Lviv featuring a swastika is actively being circulated in social media. The photograph features a girl...
The Useful Idiots Show
During the 1950s, there was a term that was sometimes used to describe people who were exploited by Soviet communists to publicly support their...
Fake: Poland, Hungary and Rumania Have Territorial Claims against Ukraine
The website Ukraina.ru published a story claiming that Ukraine is anticipating increased tension on Serpents Island because of Romanian territorial claims.
Serpent Island is a...
Masks of Revolution: When Journalists Lie
It is not often that Stopfake analyzes TV shows, especially French television programs. Ukraine: Masks of revolution, a documentary by French journalist Paul Moreira...
Lobbying for Brexit: How the Kremlin’s media are distorting the UK’s debate
The Kremlin wants Britain to leave the EU. That, at least, is the impression given by the coverage of the so-called "Brexit" debate by...
‘Russian Identity is the Soviet Identity of Today,’ Russian Government Advisor Says
Supra-national Russian identity today, Anton Bredikhin says, is the successor of “the Soviet man” and “the Soviet people” and is thus different from and...
StopFakeNews #71 with Michael Getto
This week public policy and electoral consultant Michael Getto guest hosts StopFake News. This week’s fakes include a story about what Pope Francis did...