Navigating the ‘Arm Ukraine’ Debate
There has been a lot of debate in the Western press over whether to supply Ukraine with defensive arms. How to make sense of...
Weekly newscast from StopFake team. Number 47 (dubbed)
StopFakeNews #47
The shelling of Kramatorsk, Putin’s pencil, and Yarosh’s two rogue battalions.
In this issue: It is falsely claimed that Dmytro Yarosh announces his battalions...
Yarosh Did Not Announce that His Battalions Continued Attacking after the Ceasefire Had Been...
Russian mass media – including RIA Novosti, Lifenews, and RT – stated that “ Yarosh and two of his battalions were advancing on Debaltseve.”...
No Evidence Found to Support that Soldiers Killed in Donbas Are Buried in Rostov-on-Don...
On January 28, the Ukrainian site Glavred published an article entitled, “Russians Bury Soldiers Killed on Donbas as ‘Surgical Waste’ in Rostov-on-Don.”
The journalists refer...
CNN’s Carol Costello apologizes for providing Moscow with invaluable propaganda
Western observers of the increasingly deadly conflict in eastern Ukraine between the separatist forces armed and supported by Russian troops and soldiers loyal to...
Russian Watchdog Accuses Twitter of Breaking Laws on Extremism
The head of Russia's media watchdog has accused Twitter of a persistently failing to comply with Russian laws, after the micro blog said Moscow had submitted the world's second-largest number...
Can the Guy Who Brought You “Friends” Win the Propaganda War Against ISIS and...
What former NBC head Andy Lack needs to do in his new job at the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
On January 21, Andrew Lack, the...
LifeNews’ Fake: The Ukrainian Defense Ministry Acknowledges Failure of Mobilization
On February 2, 2015, Russia’s LifeNews television channel broke the news that Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak had confirmed the failure of the country’s...
Fake: Captured Military Man Tries to Erase “Banderivets” Tattoo
On February 2, the Russian TV channel Zvezda informed viewers that a captured Ukrainian soldier was caught attempting to scratch a tattoo off with...
RT Mistakenly Includes Finland as a Member of NATO
On February, 6 the RT website published an article with the headline “Putin Meets Merkel, Hollande behind Closed Doors in Moscow.”
The article claims that...