Fighting fake news on the front line


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 12 Apr 2018

StopFake.org co-founder Olga Yurkova poses for a photograph after speaking about fighting fake news in the Ukraine at the TED Conference, April 10, 2018 in Vancouver, Canada. The Ukrainian journalist and colleagues weighed into the battle with a StopFake.org website after Russian soldiers entered Crimea under cover and their country appeared to become a testing lab for using bogus stories to manipulate public opinion. / AFP PHOTO / Glenn CHAPMAN / With AFP Story by Glenn CHAPMAN: CANADA-US-UKRAINE-INTERNET-POLITICS-STOPFAKE-TED

VANCOUVER: Olga Yurkova has spent years fighting fake news on the front line. 

The Ukrainian journalist and colleagues weighed into the battle with a StopFake.org website after Russian soldiers entered Crimea under cover and their country appeared to become a testing lab for using bogus stories to manipulate public opinion. 

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