The Ukrainian Journalists Fighting Russian ‘Fake News’

The world has been getting another lesson in Russian disinformation during its invasion of Ukraine. Reality Check’s John Avlon speaks with Yevhen Fedchenko, a journalism professor and the editor-in-chief of the website StopFake.org. Since 2014, its team of fact-checkers and reporters have been pioneers in the open-source disinformation wars.

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Why Russia loves banging on the 'fake news' drum
Analysis by Nathan Hodge, CNN

Moscow (CNN) Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has a knack for soundbites, and the allegation by US officials that Russia was cooking up a "graphic propaganda video" to create a pretext for invading Ukraine was no exception.

"This is delusional, in my opinion, this kind of fabrication," he told a Russian reporter Friday. "And there are more and more of them every day, it is obvious to any more or less experienced political scientist."

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) loves a fake news story — that is, they love to pounce on anything they can present as Western spin, dissembling or propaganda. The ministry even hosted a web page dedicated to outing what they branded as "false publications" — a page that, alas, appears to be dormant.

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    1. @Breaking Point first thing tomorrow kid. And will you be there fighting along side of A30B Nazi fighters?

      Btw kid, 27K – Is that propaganda from the Nazi regime in Ukraine?

  1. The reason why this information has gotten so strong is because people like to hear violence or high-caliber crazy things🤔

  2. Where’s the national day of prayer celebration or speech from obiden?
    The wh celebrated end of Ramadan and now today celebrated cinco de mayo, but I can’t find any day of prayer speech?

  3. Hi Carlie! Hi Elisa! How are you two weirdos? Just thought I’d stop by CNN and see if they are still with us. Yup…as of today? Yup.

  4. So ppl are gonna ignore the fact US is involved in the war but US military equipment style?

    1. Why we should ignore that? We should be happy because of that! Finally US helps to defend the attacked nation, and not attack other country itself. Finally US does something really important and something good!

  5. Surely the rulers shall consider. Surely the nations shall fork over my whole one trillion.

  6. I thought y’all didnt like the term “fake news” clowns, every day all day thank you CNN

    1. You were mistaken. There’s no question that fake news exists, the issue is that some people call real news fake news and call fake news real news.

  7. “Only the total capitulation of Western “imperialists” can avert war. If Soviet dictatorship assumes that war is inevitable.”

                             –Nicolai A. Voznesensky

  8. đưa quân đội nato dưới dạng tinh nguyên vào trấn giữ kiv thủ đô ukaina. để quân đội ukaina ra bảo vệ chiến đấu trực tiếp nga sẽ thua trận. nato không phải bàn cãi cư thế mà hành động

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