Section: US & Canada
Facebook Shuts Hundreds of Russia-Linked Pages, Accounts
Facebook said Thursday it removed hundreds of Russia-linked pages, groups and accounts that it says were part of two big disinformation operations, in its latest effort to fight fake news. The social media company said it took action after finding two networks “that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior” on its Facebook and...
Ukraine OKs Property Law That Could Affect 12,000 Churches
Ukraine’s parliament on Thursday adopted a bill spelling out procedures for transferring church property after a new unified Ukrainian Orthodox church was granted independence. The bill could potentially affect some 12,000 churches in Ukraine and vast amounts of property, including the gems of Orthodox Christianity like the vast Pechersk...
Sea Tragedy Raises Donbas Coal Theft Claims
When a ship sank in the Black Sea with 3,300 tons of coal on board, Kyiv said Moscow was illegally exporting coal from areas of eastern Ukraine held by Russia-backed separatists. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine OKs Property Law That Could Affect 12,000 Churches
Ukraine’s parliament has adopted a bill spelling out procedures for transferring church property after a new unified Ukrainian Orthodox church was granted independence from the Russian church. …read more Source: U.S....
Ukrainian Parliament Adopts Law On Religious Communities’ Affiliation
The Ukrainian parliament has adopted a bill setting the procedure for changing the affiliation of religious communities in the country. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Facebook takes down anti-NATO pages linked to Russian news agency Sputnik
Facebook removed hundreds of pages on Thursday it said posed as independent news sites in eastern Europe and elsewhere but were actually run by employees at Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik. Facebook (FB) said the 364 pages and accounts had almost 800,000 followers and had spent around $135,000 on ads on the platform between October 2013...
Ukraine Detains ‘Pro-Separatist’ Journalist After Deportation From Russia
Authorities in Ukraine say they have detained a journalist accused of undermining the country’s territorial integrity. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Manafort Worked With Russian-Ukrainian On Peace Plan Before — And Long After — Criminal Charges
Konstantin Kilimnik, the alleged Russian intelligence operative who helped run Paul Manafort’s operations in Kyiv for roughly a decade, boasted of the duo’s closeness to RFE/RL in a 2017 interview. “The only guy who Manafort can conceivably talk to in Ukraine is basically me,” he said. …read more Source: Radio Free...
Fake Washington Post newspaper claims President Trump resigned
Fake news was being distributed to commuters in and around the nation’s capital Wednesday. No, really. Liberal activists passed out thousands of trumped-up print copies of a phony Washington Post newspaper that looked “strikingly similar” to the real one but it was dated in the future. The paper was filled with fake news about...
US Senate Upholds Lifting Sanctions on Russian’s Companies
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday narrowly upheld a Trump administration plan to lift sanctions against three companies linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Eleven Republicans in the Senate joined Democrats in an effort to enforce the sanctions against the giant aluminum firm Rusal and two...
