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.

Read more at: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/04/europe/russia-fake-news-propaganda-cmd-intl/index.html