Margo Gontargontar.margo Margogontar

Margo.gontar@gmail.com

• launched on March 2, 2014 • Struggle against untrue information about

Ukraine• Founders: Ukrainian journalists, Mohyla

School of Journalism alumni• Languages: Russian, English• Site stopfake.org, weekly video newscasts

• 5 mln unique visitors• 15 mln pageviews

Who wrote about us•Guardian•Mashable•BBC•DW•Aljazeera•Liberation• Der Tagesspiegel• Asahi Shinbun

Main goal:• Benefit the idea of Empire Russia• To show Ukraine as aggressor, evil, merciless,

dark place and humanless

Russia Today, “Jews leaving Kyiv in fear of the Nazis in the new Ukrainian government”, middle of March 2014

Truth: Kapustin running fromCrimea after annexation

Crusified boy

Types of fakes

• Photo fakes

• Using photoshop

• Wounded children

Tools:• Findexif.com• fotoforensics.com• Google search• TinEye

• Video fakes

"Punitive expedition of National guard is throwing dead bodies near Kramatorsk (Donetsk region) at May 3rd".

Fake Original

Tools:Citizen Evidence Lab

• Using “news” from satiric sites

• http://www.stopfake.org/en/russian-mass-media-made-a-page-one-from-news-taken-from-a-german-satirical-website/

• Twisting the words of Russian officials

• “100 000 killed” • http://www.stopfake.org/en/churkin-announced-at-the-un-that-the-verkhovna-rada-of-ukraine-is-dissolved/

• Change of tactics: Russian media searching for fakes in Ukrainian media

Tools:• Google Maps• Yandex Map

Join:

StopFake.orgstopfakingnewsStopfakeukraine

fakestopteam@gmail.com