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Debunking lies and stopping fakes: lessons from Ukraine. By Olga Yurkova. #RockitWAW
Launched in 2014 by Ukrainian journalists, StopFake.org aims to counter misinformation and has fact-checked tens of thousands of news items, uncovering over 1,000 fakes. The site operates in multiple languages, garners millions of unique users, and has trained around 10,000 individuals on identifying propaganda. It highlights the evolving nature of Russian propaganda and emphasizes the necessity for fact-checking in journalism to combat fake news and its consequences.
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- 1. Debunking lies andstopping fakes: lessons from Ukraine Kyiv, Ukraine
- 3. • Launched onMarch 2, 2014 • Founders: Ukrainian journalists, Mohyla School of Journalism alumni • Languages: Russian, English • Site stopfake.org, weekly video newscasts, pages in social networks
- 4. • Honest andimpartial • Working only with facts, not with opinions • Providing understandable evidences
- 6. • have fact-checkedtens thousands of news • revealed more then 1000 fakes • 10 language versions • 7 million unique users • 23 million page views •180 700 followers in social networks • 29 100 followers of video digest • 2,9 million views on youtube • trained about 10 000 people
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- 8. Propaganda narratives in 2014 1.Сoup d’état and Western-backed junta 2. Ukraine as a ‘fascist state’ 3. Russia is not a part of occupation/war 4. Ukrainian Army is weak 5. War in Ukraine is actually conducted by the US, NATO or private contractors 6. Volunteer Battalions 7. Internally displaced people and refugees to Russia 8. MH17
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- 10. Ukraine as a fasciststate
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- 13. Propaganda narratives in 2015 1.‘Territorial claims’ from neighboring countries 2. AIDS/ZIKA/ other disease stories 3. Territorial disintegration of Ukraine 4. Fake legitimization of Crimea annexation and occupation of Donbass by foreign governments, international organizations or foreign media 5. Ukraine/Turkey/Syria/ISIS
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- 15. Fake legitimization of Crimeaannexation
- 16. Propaganda narratives in 2016 1.Decline of Western support for Ukraine 2. International organizations manipulated 3. Ukraine and the European Union 4. Disintegration of the European Union, decay of the US and West in general 5. Ukraine as a ‘failed state’
- 17. Decline of western supportfor Ukraine
- 18. Russian propaganda adjusts tocurrent events and features of a particular country
- 19. Propaganda narratives in 2016 inEurope 1. Europe is facing Armageddon due to migration 2. Europeans want to recognize Crimea as Russian but the EU stands in the way 3. The murder of British MP Jo Cox was an inside job to sway the Brexit vote 4. Ukraine isn’t part of Europe 5. Latvians are perpetual fascists 6. Merkel, Hollande, and the EU are to blame for the migrant crisis
- 20. We need toreturn back to fact-checking. We need to reinvent journalism
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- 24. Fake news canruin lives. Fighting fake news can save lives.
- 25. @olga_yurkova +38 067 29695 95 [email protected] olga.urkova