POINT 4.0

1. Margo Gontar
gontar.margo
Margogontar
Margo.gontar@gmail.com

2. • 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

9. • 5 mln unique visitors
• 15 mln pageviews

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

11. Main goal:
• Benefit the idea of Empire Russia
• To show Ukraine as aggressor, evil, merciless,
dark place and humanless

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

13. Truth: Kapustin running from
Crimea after annexation

16. Crusified
boy

19. Types of fakes

20. • Photo fakes

26. • Using photoshop

28. • Wounded children

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

36. • Video fakes

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

38. Fake Original

40. Tools:
Citizen
Evidence
Lab

41. • Using “news” from satiric sites

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

45. • Twisting the words of Russian officials

46. • “100 000 killed”
• http://www.stopfake.org/en/churkin-announced-at-the-un-that-the-verkhovna-rada-of-ukraine-is-dissolved/

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

50. Tools:
• Google Maps
• Yandex Map

51. Join:
StopFake.org
stopfakingnews
Stopfakeukraine
fakestopteam@gmail.com