Ukraine's Remedy for Fake News: News About Fake News

In 2014, in the aftermath of the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine, the vacuum of reliable information in the Ukrainian media was filled by a deluge of misinformation and propaganda from Russia. To counter this, a small group at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kiev started StopFake, a media organization devoted solely to debunking fake news and Russian propaganda. Today, three years later, StopFake is a multi-platform media outlet with a nightly TV show broadcast on 30 local channels, a weekly radio show, and a strong social media following.

Brooke talks to Yevhen Fedchenko, co-founder and current editor-in-chief of StopFake, as well as director of the School of Journalism at Kiev-Mohyla Academy. He says that StopFake's goal isn't just to debunk fake news -- it's to make news consumers smarter and more critical of their news.

You can find StopFake's fake news "detection tools" here.

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