Stopfake.org presentation by Margo Gontar
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Transcript of Stopfake.org presentation by Margo Gontar
• 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
