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Does NATO’s Website Offer Ukrainian as a Language Option?

NATO's official languages are French and English.

July 11, 2023

NATO Fact checks / debunkings Ukraine International community

Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation

BBC News debunks several disinformation narratives making the rounds on Twitter - amplified in particular by paid "blue check" accounts:

- Weapons for Ukraine not used in French riots
- No evidence of 'baby factories' in Ukraine
- Kramatorsk missile not Ukrainian
- Zelensky has not cancelled elections

July 8, 2023

Disinformation Corruption Elections Democracy Misconceptions Ukraine Aid to Ukraine

In pictures: The Ukrainian religious sites ruined by fighting

Several churches and a Jewish yeshiva destroyed or damaged by Russian shelling. BBC News report from March 2022.

July 5, 2023

Religion Religious freedom Attacks on religion Ukraine Russia War crimes

Fake: Polish Defense Ministry Urges Citizens to Defend Europe from Wagner Group Founder -…

An "advertising poster" in the photo was faked. The press service of the
Ministry of National Defense of Poland, at the request of a StopFake
journalist, stated that none of their departments responsible for
recruiting candidates for the Polish Army is the author of this poster.

July 5, 2023

Faked publications: billboards ads magazines etc Wagner Group Disinformation Russian propaganda Coordinated disinformation Fact checks / debunkings Misconceptions Poland Ukraine Russia International community

Did the Head of the Wagner Group Write a Children’s Book?

Yevgeny Prigozhin and his mercenary force launched a brief rebellion in Russia in June 2023.

June 28, 2023

Wagner Group Fact checks / debunkings Russia

These videos do not show clashes between the Wagner Group and Russian forces

In the aftermath of the armed rebellion attempt by Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner mercenary group against the Russian army command on Saturday June 24, people began sharing images online purporting to show the two sides fighting. But at least two of these videos were taken from the video game Arma 3 - and it's not the first time this military video game has been used to spread misinformation.

June 27, 2023

Disinformation Wagner Group Media taken out of context Fact checks / debunkings Methods Misconceptions Russia

TinEye – Reverse Image Search

One common fake news tactic is to use an old or unrelated image to "prove" a claim about a breaking event. Is the image in a news story really related to the event it claims? Use this powerful tool to check where and when an image has previously appeared across the internet.