Texty.org exposed a network of approximately 2 thousand Facebook users, which had close ties with groups of “Stepan Mazura”, a DNR combatant; the latter has long pretended to be a Ukrainian patriot. It is a network of public groups and users who spread calls for riots and protests under disguise of patriotic slogans.
Vitalii Moroz and Olha Hurtovenko, coordinators at Digital Security School 380, analysed the cybersecurity challenges for Ukraine.
Olena Shkarpova, VoxCheck Project editor, and the team of VoxCheck analysts, science editors and volunteers prepared the ranking of populists and liars in Ukrainian politics.
Vitalii Rybak, analyst at Internews Ukraine and UkraineWorld, analysed the situation with media ownership in Ukraine.
Over the past years and even decades, Ukraine has been at the forefront of counteracting Russian information warfare.
Fake news or ‘alternative facts’ have become a key ingredient of Western political discourse.
It is necessary to provide a certain balance between the protection of the state information space (taking into account the Russian aggression) and the provision of specific needs of ethnonational minorities to receive information in their own languages.
National TV channels increasingly use social networks as a source for news
NGO Internews Ukraine conducted the expert survey titled “Internet Freedom in Time of Military Conflict.” The study aimed to find out potential risks regarding free users’ access to the net and to figure out if the military conflict on Donbass affects journalists and bloggers in Ukraine.
How did major Ukrainian TV channels comply with professional standards while covering political events in Ukraine, and how is Ukrainian politics presented in their news? The monitoring of political news conducted by the Academy of Ukrainian Press in the first quarter of 2017 addresses these and other questions.