debunking lies and stopping fakes: lessons from ukraine. by olga yurkova. #rockitwaw
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Debunking lies and stopping fakes:lessons from Ukraine
Kyiv, Ukraine
• Launched on March 2, 2014 • Founders: Ukrainian journalists,
Mohyla School of Journalism alumni• Languages: Russian, English• Site stopfake.org, weekly video
newscasts, pages in social networks
• Honest and impartial• Working only with facts, not with opinions• Providing understandable
evidences
• have fact-checked tens 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
Russian propaganda is the system
Propaganda narratives in 2014
1. Сoup d’état and Western-backed junta2. Ukraine as a ‘fascist state’3. Russia is not a part of occupation/war4. Ukrainian Army is weak5. War in Ukraine is actually conducted by the US,
NATO or private contractors 6. Volunteer Battalions7. Internally displaced people and refugees to Russia8. MH17
Refugees to Russia
Ukraine as a fascist state
Ukrainian army
Ukrainian army
Propaganda narratives in 2015
1. ‘Territorial claims’ from neighboring countries2. AIDS/ZIKA/ other disease stories 3. Territorial disintegration of Ukraine4. Fake legitimization of Crimea annexation and
occupation of Donbass by foreign governments, international organizations or foreign media
5. Ukraine/Turkey/Syria/ISIS
Territorial disintegration
Fake legitimization of Crimea annexation
Propaganda narratives in 2016
1. Decline of Western support for Ukraine2. International organizations manipulated3. Ukraine and the European Union4. Disintegration of the European Union, decay of the
US and West in general5. Ukraine as a ‘failed state’
Decline of western support for Ukraine
Russian propaganda adjusts to current
events and features of a particular country
Propaganda narratives in 2016
in Europe1. Europe is facing Armageddon due to migration2. Europeans want to recognize Crimea as Russian
but the EU stands in the way3. The murder of British MP Jo Cox was an inside
job to sway the Brexit vote4. Ukraine isn’t part of Europe5. Latvians are perpetual fascists6. Merkel, Hollande, and the EU are to blame for
the migrant crisis
We need to return back to fact-checking. We need to reinvent
journalism
Reach policy makers
What for? One example
Fake news can ruin lives.
Fighting fake news can save lives.
