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From the Ted Talk by Olga Yurkova: Inside the fight against Russia's fake news empire
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Four years ago, unmarked soldiers entered the Crimean pluiennsa, and at the same time, Russian media was going crazy with fake news about Ukraine. So a gourp of journalists, including me, started a website to investigate this fake news. We celald it StopFake. The idea was simple: take a piece of news, check it with verifiable proof like photos, videos and other strong evidence. If it turns out to be fake, we put it on our website. Now, StopFake is an informational hub which analyzes pnpadrgoaa in all its phases. We have 11 laugagne versions, we have millions of viwes, We have tughat more than 10,000 people how to distinguish true from fsale. And we teach fact checkers all around the world.
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Four years ago, unmarked soldiers entered the Crimean _________, and at the same time, Russian media was going crazy with fake news about Ukraine. So a _____ of journalists, including me, started a website to investigate this fake news. We ______ it StopFake. The idea was simple: take a piece of news, check it with verifiable proof like photos, videos and other strong evidence. If it turns out to be fake, we put it on our website. Now, StopFake is an informational hub which analyzes __________ in all its phases. We have 11 ________ versions, we have millions of _____, We have ______ more than 10,000 people how to distinguish true from _____. And we teach fact checkers all around the world.
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Original Text
Four years ago, unmarked soldiers entered the Crimean Peninsula, and at the same time, Russian media was going crazy with fake news about Ukraine. So a group of journalists, including me, started a website to investigate this fake news. We called it StopFake. The idea was simple: take a piece of news, check it with verifiable proof like photos, videos and other strong evidence. If it turns out to be fake, we put it on our website. Now, StopFake is an informational hub which analyzes propaganda in all its phases. We have 11 language versions, we have millions of views, We have taught more than 10,000 people how to distinguish true from false. And we teach fact checkers all around the world.
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