NTV Reports of “Insurgent” Children’s Text Book in Ukraine
On October 14, Defender of Ukraine Day, the Russian television channel NTV falsely reported that Ukrainians had allegedly started teaching their children with a...
Dutch Report: MH17 Downed By Buk Surface-To-Air Missile
Dutch investigators say that a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane that crashed in a conflict zone in eastern Ukraine in July 2014 was brought down...
Fake: Limp Bizkit to Perform in Donetsk and Luhansk
On October 8, the Russian newspaper Izvestiya falsely reported that the American musical group Limp Bizkit would give concerts in the war-torn eastern Ukrainian...
War Is Peace: Russia’s Orwellian Propaganda (Op-Ed)
The Russian authorities have achieved remarkable success in the Syrian war. According to a poll by state-run VTsIOM, 66 percent of citizens approve of sending Russian combat aircraft to Syria, even...
Opulent Propaganda: The Subterranean Paradise of the Moscow Metro
For two weeks last year, Canadian photographer David Burdeny spent his nights 200 feet underground, shooting the surreal opulence of the Moscow Metro. With their ornate chandeliers,...
More Russians Play U.S. Green Card Lottery, Despite Propaganda
The number of Russians entering a competition to win the right to permanently reside in the U.S. has grown by 58 percent — nearly 100,000 people — since 2012, the Znak.com news website reported Monday,...
How to Find Information in Facebook
Facebook users very often have a need to find some photo of video files. For instance, how to find images of the Kyiv center...
RT sanctioned by Ofcom over series of misleading and biased articles
The Kremlin-backed news channel RT has been sanctioned by Ofcom for a series of misleading or biased programmes on the conflicts in Ukraine and...
StopFakeNews #55 with Marta Dyczok
This week, associate professor at University of Western Ontario Marta Dyczok is the StopFakeNews guest anchor. Russia One falsely reported that Ukraine’s General Staff...
Photo Fake: Boy from Donbas Used to Protest Muslim Migrants in Sweden
A recent photo fake about a Donbas boy, presented as an orphan searching for his parents among the debris of a destroyed Ukrainian town,...