Fake: Former U.S. Secretary Slams Ukraine’s “Coup d’etat”
Various websites and social networks have falsely reported that former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul Henry O'Neill had recently spoken out against the “coup d’etat"...
Fake: Germany to Send Bombers to Syria
Russian media is claiming that Germany will be sending its bombers to Syria to support France.
Gazeta.ru reports: “Germany will send Tornado bombers to Syria...
StopFakeNews #61 with Christi Anne Hofland
This week, Christi Anne Hofland, the director of America House in Kyiv, guest hosts StopFake news. Among this week's fakes, Russia’s Channel One aired...
Sputnik Distorts Remarks to U.S. Senate Committee
On November 18, the English-language edition of Sputnik incorrectly reported that a committee of the U.S. Senate had been informed that the U.S. was...
The Pentagon, Propaganda, and Independent Media
The U.S. Defense Department has long had an uneasy relationship with independent media. On the one hand, it needs the trusted voice of media...
Truthiness in Russia
As opinion polls show, Russian propaganda is not effective in improving Russia’s image abroad. The situation is dramatically different inside Russia, where most popular...
Is Russia Insider sponsored by a Russian oligarch with the ties to the European...
The emails leaked by the Anonymous International last year give us a few insights into the workings of the English language pro-Putin propaganda website...
Fake: Ukrainian Soldiers in Syria
Russian media and the former Internal Affairs Minister of Ukraine, Vitaliy Zakharchenko, have resurrected a debunked story about Ukrainian soldiers being sent to Syria.
The...
Fake: Poroshenko Orders Total Blokade against Crimea
On November 22, Ukraina.ru falsely reported that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had decided to “completely block up the Crimea” by putting a stop to...