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Ukrainian “fact checkers” censor information in the West

We translated this article from Italian because we believe that, even after the case of StopFake.org, too many Ukrainian fact-checking organizations are working for Facebook, to censor negative information about Ukraine in the West. - Voxkomm

By Francesco Fustaneo

On April 2, 2022, I posted on Facebook a video showing the woman, corresponding to the Ukrainian blogger “Marianna V.“, who appeared in all the media (pregnant) and described as a “survivor of the Russian bombing of the Mariupol hospital“.

The woman who speaks in Russian in the video (alternative link) says that in reality the story of the aerial bombing was a staged one.

In short, she explains how the hospital was actually occupied by Ukrainian troops and that it was not the subject of any deliberate aerial bombardment. Outside the building, says the woman, a grenade had exploded; this was used as an excuse to organize a show with photographers and cameramen, including an Associated Press employee. The woman clarifies that all this happened against her will, having expressly requested not to be taken back.

The day after publication, probably on the recommendation of some FB user, the preview of the video I posted was obscured with the words “False information – The same false information was checked in another post by fact-checkers. There may be small differences. Independent fact-checkers say that this information has no basis in fact“.

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The End of Days Is Coming Fast and It’s Ugly The average citizen of Earth is all tied up these days. Scarcely anyone has free time to take on one more task, to truly understand what goes on in the world, or glean any meaningful benefit from world affairs. Life goes on, albeit in a more chaotic sense, as it always has. The rich get richer, as they say, and the poor get poorer. There’s a simple reason to explain it all, but humanity is never allowed to come to terms with it. The solution to all our problems is patently simple. But the choice? Well, we’re conditioned to shun revolutions of thought and deed. Now that I have opened a misty veil into the nebulous unknowing of world affairs, let me reveal once more, the dastardly cause of all our strife. The powers that be, whether, in the north, south, east, or west, want everything for themselves. You knew this since that first overheard conversation between old men, in Athens, Beirut, Charleston, or Dublin. And if you’ve dared to rear your head and lift your voice with the newfound freedom of digital means, beware, for they will soon smash you back down into the dark chamber of servitude, where you and I belong. Today’s case in point? The sister of billionaire Warren Buffett, Roberta Buffett Elliott, and an institution painted philanthropic, to cover a deceitful ghastliness. In this report, I have included Tweets from some of the panel that the Buffett Institute has assembled. The gist of these Tweets will further enlighten you. In my email this morning there was a message from Annelise Riles, Executive Director of Northwestern University’s Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, a school I was not even familiar with before. The subject of the email was a Foreign Policy – Northwestern broadcast entitled “How to Stop Fake News” The tagline reads: “Stopping fake news is the big problem we have to solve before we can more effectively address the global challenges facing humanity.” The story of Roberta, Warren, and her fascinating husband David Elliott, is a subject worthy of a book, but for the sake of brevity, a $100 million dollar gift to create the Northwestern institute in 2015 was no charitable donation. The now-deceased husband David, was head of the largest Peace Corps operating in the world about the time J.F.K. was assassinated. Just to tweak the reader’s interest in how “agents” of liberal change are created. Returning to the latest Buffett Institute initiative, it’s important to note that like every other supposed philanthropic gift by billionaires, there was a windfall beyond a tax writeoff. And now, with brother Warren and his elite colleagues pressing hard to dominate our world, the rebelliousness of independent thought must be squashed. The elite accomplishes our quietness via the same old methods. They not only own almost all the newspapers and TV stations, they also donate billions to cultivate journalists, scientists, politicians, bureaucrats, educators, and military leaders who will propagate their agendas. Now, independent traditional and social media are a huge problem for those who want utter control. Now that the term “conspiracy theory” no longer has weight in light of exposed real conspiracies, the danger for the Warren Buffett or George Soros types of the world is acute. This “How to Stop Fake News” should be a wake-up call for every citizen of our world, a call to action to prevent the complete takeover of freedoms and elusive democracy. Make no mistake, the US President declaring war on Russia and Vladmir Putin in recent comments, the hardcore language aimed at Iran, China, and many other “perceived” threats to American hegemony, are the other warning signs. This new initiative involves high-ranking members of the European Commission, Putin hater Olga Yurkova (Co-Founder, Stopfake.org), Marwan M. Kraidy (Dean and CEO, Northwestern University in Qatar), Justine Isola (Facebook), and others. One look into the backgrounds of these people will tell you the Roberta Buffett Institute is already presenting a narrative to students that is mightily skewed in favor of the liberal order. With Biden in charge now, and after Trump succeeding in destroying conservatism for good, Buffett and his fellows are ready for the push to subdue Russia or anything standing in the way. At least, this is my analysis. Here in Greece, the Prime Minister just declared social media the “enemy of democracy” because the people are losing confidence in the government’s ability to immunize and protect citizens. This is not “fake news” Prime Minister Mitsotakis is on record saying this. For a few years now, institutions like Freedom House have been trumpeting the notion that social media is rotting democracy from within. The so-called “left’ has blamed this supposed decay on conservatives and the far-right. A Politico piece before the 2020 election suggested that Americans were becoming “superspreaders of misinformation.” At the other end of the spectrum, Annelise Riles, the lady in charge of the Buffett Institute, writes for Times Higher Education (THE); “Universities can help the US retake its seat at the global table.” Must I continue, or is the writing on the wall here? Riles was the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship herself, so what we are seeing is the most effects of replanting neo-colonialism, and the latest in the ongoing war for this world. We must understand fully what former President Donald Trump’s role was in all this. Trump’s Tweets, the bombastic and often ridiculous content he spread, the sheer callousness and narcissism he foamed at us with, it set the stage for his colleagues to silence all moderators. Now, the liberal order Trump was supposed to expose, the Deep State and the Swamp he was sworn to unseat, has complete control (almost) of media, business, and even academia and medicine. Currently, there is nothing whatsoever standing in the way of their turning us all into slaves. Putin and Russia represent a huge problem for them because the capitalistic systems they created will soon fail without new resources to leverage. Russia means growth for these people, and without the treasures of Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and other nations, the Warren Buffetts and Rothschilds of Earth cannot go forward. Their empires of Wall Street hot air will collapse within a decade. They must, you see, either command all the world’s mineral and human wealth or control us utterly and completely. The inevitable is unarguable. There is no bottomless vessel, from which to pour milk or honey endlessly. This liberal order that reshaped its power, will transform every freedom into a task that serves them. Much of our life is already dedicated to them, they take a piece of every move we make. It will only get worse. But humanity must be left standing. End of story. By the way, this is not fake news, it is my real opinion based on decades of study, research, and inside information

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#SecretServerGate- Before Iowa Caucus, USA Should Know What Putin, Trump, and Bernie Are Up To.

#SecretServerGate- Before Iowa Caucus, USA Should Know What Putin, Trump, and Bernie Are Up To.

Big news coming in clusters these days, almost more than MDA can keep up with- but not quite! The one-two punch discovery of a lifetime has entered all our lives in the form of #SecretServerGate. Finding the missing ingredient of the whole Russiagate investigation, after all, which Ukrainegate and the impeachment have been a mere continuation of, does not happen every day. THAT IS WHY,…

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#FakesNews Crean una Extensión de Chrome y Firefox para "Verificación de videos"

#FakesNews Ante la creciente circulación de información falsa, crean una extensión de Chrome que sirve para la "Verificación de videos". Descubrí como funciona esta sencilla aplicación.

#FakesNews Ante la creciente circulación de información falsa, crean una extensión de #Chrome y #Firefox que sirve para la “Verificación de videos”. Descubrí como funciona esta sencilla aplicación.

Ya todos sabemos que los Fakes News o noticias falsas se han convertido en un verdadero problema. Desde la manipulación de la opinión pública hasta la instauración de temáticas sin sentido para…

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The Ukrainian Journalists Fighting Russian 'Fake News’

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. === Why Russia loves banging on the ‘fake news’…

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Ukraine: US and Russia battle for narrative supremacy | Ukraine-Russia crisis

Ukraine: US and Russia battle for narrative supremacy | Ukraine-Russia crisis

From: The Listening Post The US’s preemptive intelligence strikes and Russia’s staged TV moments – the theater of the Ukraine crisis. And, Afghan media six months since the Taliban’s takeover. On the borderline: Russian troops await their orders, misinformation abounds and the news lens remains trained on Ukraine. Contributors:Ruslan Deynychenko – Executive director, StopFake.Org (Ukranian)Nina…

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Here’s another article for people who think that laughing about “Russian chaos agents” is funny and harmless.

Countering Kremlin disinformation is one area where Kiev has the upper hand.

By VIJAI MAHESHWARI

3/12/17, 10:30 PM CET Updated 3/15/17, 2:21 PM CET

KIEV, Ukraine — When “little green men” invaded Crimea in the spring of 2014, Russian media went into overdrive, smearing Ukraine’s Euro-revolution as a “fascist coup d’état.”

A group of professors and students struck back and unwittingly made history that spring when they launched StopFake.org, the first site to directly tackle and refute Russian propaganda. Now that the rest of the world has woken up to the Kremlin’s disinformation tactics, the journalism school crew behind StopFake have emerged as the “grand wizards” of the fake-news-busting world.

“There was a growing avalanche of propaganda from Russia seeking to reframe the narrative in the Kremlin’s favor, and we urgently needed to counterbalance that,” says Yevhen Fedchenko, the dean of Kiev Mohyla University’s journalism faculty and one of the founders of StopFake.

The site quickly gained a cult following by exposing false facts in anti-Ukraine Russian news reports. An aggrieved mother whose child was reportedly “crucified” by Ukrainian troops was “outed” as a popular Russian television actress in an article that was shared 11,000 times and later referenced in a press conference with Putin.

As a journalist covering Ukraine during the post-2014 barrage of Russian propaganda, I remember how the Kremlin’s fake news stories infected our most private moments and reframed the narrative.

But it was only after last year’s presidential election in the U.S. — when Russian fake news and cyberattacks were blamed for swaying the election in Donald Trump’s favor — that the site burst on to the global stage.

Almost overnight, the founders of StopFake went from provincial do-gooders to international media stars. Fedchenko and his colleagues were lauded at conferences and plied with offers of consulting work by nervous European governments. They now organize media workshops across the Continent, offering guidelines on recognizing and debunking Russian propaganda.

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As the West scrambles to get a handle on the Kremlin’s propaganda tactics, Ukraine for once finds itself in a privileged position. Ukrainians lived through the Soviet Union, speak fluent Russian and can sift through Russian-language sites for clues about the inner workings of the Kremlin’s fakes news operations. They know the sites pumping out Kremlin disinformation and might even have met some of their editors in the past.

The site Ukraina.ru, for example — a Russian-language site from Moscow that peddles false anti-Ukraine stories — recently offered one of StopFake’s freelancers a full-time position.

“He turned down the job of course, even though the salary was very high,” says Fedchenko, who knows the editor-in-chief, a man who spent a few years in Kiev before the Maidan revolution. “We traced their offices to a building in Moscow that also houses other Kremlin-friendly sites like Sputnik and RIA Novosti.”

New urgency

As a journalist covering Ukraine during the post-2014 barrage of Russian propaganda, I remember how the Kremlin’s fake news stories infected our most private moments and reframed the narrative.

I recall an incredulous taxi driver telling me that a recent client from Moscow had insisted that the MH17 flight, which was downed over eastern Ukraine in July 2014, had been “stuffed with dead bodies.” He refused to pay the fare until the driver agreed with his version of events.

Fake reports alleged that the Ukrainian air force had targeted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plane, which flew over the same region as MH17 one hour earlier. A journalist friend who was briefly detained in eastern Ukraine said the separatist soldiers had been incredulous the West could so openly support Kiev’s “fascist junta.”

Meanwhile, the Kremlin’s repeated assertions that there are no Russian troops or weapons involved in the conflict has created a convenient narrative for those who prefer to label it a “civil war” and not an act of Russian aggression.

Ukrainians are also intimately aware of the dangers of Russian propaganda, and the way it can infect the body politic with its dark messages.

Chopping the air feverishly with his hands, Fedchenko emphasizes that contemporary Russian propaganda had no inherent ideology and appealed to people’s basest instincts.

“Their messages are very fluid and seek to divide societies against themselves,” he says. “The Kremlin is against all international organizations like the NATO or the EU, and prefers that each country is forced to fend for itself.”

StopFake’s dire warnings about Russian propaganda and its nefarious designs have taken on new urgency in the context of upcoming presidential elections in both Germany and France, where there has been much talk about Kremlin disinformation campaigns against anti-Russian candidates.

Fedchenko explains that the case of the German-Russian teenager, Lisa — whose supposed rape by Muslim immigrants sparked mass protests by Germany’s millions-strong Russian community last year — was a classic example of Russian propaganda.

“They fabricated a rape to inflame passions among Russian speakers in Germany and discredit Merkel,” he says.

During a recent presidential campaign in Moldova, Russians also spread fake reports labeling the pro-European candidate a lesbian and accusing her of supporting “mass Muslim immigration.”

The pro-Kremlin candidate won the election.

Ukraine can’t turn back time. But for the rest of the Western world, it might not yet be too late. The government in Kiev has many Russian media outlets to counter fake news. And indeed, Fedchenko’s biggest regret is that “Ukraine hadn’t switched off Russian television 20 years ago.”

His eyes briefly become misty as he imagines a country completely free from the taint of Russian propaganda. If that had been the case, he says with renewed conviction, “we’d never have had the war in the Donbass to begin with.”

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Az ukrán konfliktus során az orosz dezinformációs aktivitás a tetőpontjára jutott, a hamisított és álhírek a Kreml „aktív eszközeinek” részét képezik. A jelenség persze nem újdonság, már a Szovjetunióban széles körben alkalmaztak ehhez hasonló eszközöket az ország külpolitikai céljainak elérése érdekében. Az elferdített információk megírása és terjesztése ma is egy központosított rendszeren keresztül történik, így minden elem illeszkedik a Kreml politikájához és retorikájához. Vendégszerzőnk Yevhen Fedchenko, a Mohyla Újságírói Iskola vezetője és az orosz dezinformáció ellen küzdő StopFake.org társalapítója, kétrészes sorozatban járja körül az orosz információs hadviselés 21. századi működését.  

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That's part of the issue with Russian disinformation, because the general thought that is that it's there to get the left to hit the right. So, it's left versus right. The reality is that Russian disinformation uses the left and the right against the center, because that's the center where liberal democracy lives. That's where instead of getting the Joe Bidens and the John McCains of the world to shake hands in congress and get the job done, they would rather have them yelling at each other. And that's a win for the Kremlin.

Marko Suprun, anchor and producer of StopFake.org, a fact-checking organization founded in Ukraine that combats Russian propaganda/fake news

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Хто збив Боїнг-777? - StopFake.org

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#FakesNews Como determinar la falsedad de algunas noticias

#FakesNews Hoy les traigo un resumen de un artículo muy interesante sobre como determinar "cuándo" hay falsedad en una noticia, foto, video, etc. No sirve solo para periodistas, sino también para ciudadanos conscientes. MIRA TODOS LOS DETALLES.

#FakesNews Hoy les traigo un resumen de un artículo muy interesante sobre como determinar “cuándo” hay falsedad en una noticia, foto, video, etc. No sirve solo para periodistas, sino también para ciudadanos conscientes. MIRA TODOS LOS DETALLES.

El uso de la información con el objetivo de divulgar propaganda en muchos casos (como el de Ucrania, en el artículo pertinente) se usan “no para…

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Митрополит Иларион: РПЦ признала Константинопольского патриарха раскольником - ТАСС

Коммерсантъ

Митрополит Иларион: РПЦ признала Константинопольского патриарха раскольником ТАСС МОСКВА, 20 октября. /ТАСС/. Русская православная церковь (РПЦ) признала Константинопольского патриарха Варфоломея раскольником, основываясь на церковных канонах. Об этом в субботу заявил председатель Отдела внешних церковных связей Московского патриархата ... РПЦ признала Константинопольского патриарха Варфоломея раскольникомТелеканал "Звезда" В РПЦ назвали патриарха Константинопольского раскольникомМосковский Комсомолец РПЦ назвала константинопольского патриарха раскольникомRT на русском StopFake.org Все похожие статьи: 25 »

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Фейк: украинских детей заставляют играть с плюшевым Гитлером – StopFake

25 июля 2018 года российские СМИ и прокремлевские медиа стремительно распространили новость, которая удивила даже опытных журналистов StopFake. СМИ и сайты сообщили, что в Украине детей заставляют играть игрушкой «Адольф Гитлер». Однако, как пишут журналисты StopFake.org, доказательств такого утверждения СМИ не навели. Зато только скриншот с сайта olx, где якобы продается эта игрушка. Создавая украинцам негативный имидж нацистов и фашистов, российские пропагандисты продемонстрировали чудеса креативности... Читать дальше: https://oi5.ru/n199265829