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.â€
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 …read more
Source: POLITICO – Europe Edition
