A website called 'War on Fakes' launched soon after Russia invaded Ukraine. It does not name its writers and it remains unclear who is behind the project, but among its amplifiers are pro-Kremlin actors including Russian ministries and embassies
A Russian missile smashed a Ukrainian apartment complex, killing dozens. Pro-Russian propagandists offered a slick counter-narrative that shifted the blame away from Moscow -- using pseudo fact-checking as a tool of disinformation.
The battered nine-story building came to epitomize one of the deadliest single attacks in Ukraine since the Russian invasion. It does not name its writers and it remains unclear who was behind the project, launched last year soon after the invasion, but among its amplifiers are pro-Kremlin actors including Russian ministries and embassies."It works primarily because fact-checking usually serves for readers as an 'authoritative' source to seek 'objective information.'"
States including Russia have a"long tradition of using fact-checking type techniques as part of propaganda efforts," Martin Innes, director of the Security, Crime and Intelligence Innovation Institute at Cardiff University, told AFP.
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