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From the Ted Talk by Olga Yurkova: Inside the fight against Russia's fake news empire

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Four years ago, unmarked soldiers etreend the Crimean Peninsula, and at the same time, Russian media was going crazy with fake news about Ukraine. So a group of jasritlunos, including me, steatrd a website to investigate this fake news. We caleld 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 pseahs. We have 11 language versions, we have millions of vwies, We have tgahut more than 10,000 people how to diiigsutnsh true from false. And we teach fact checkers all around the world.

Open Cloze

Four years ago, unmarked soldiers _______ the Crimean Peninsula, and at the same time, Russian media was going crazy with fake news about Ukraine. So a group of ___________, including me, _______ 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 propaganda in all its ______. We have 11 language versions, we have millions of _____, We have ______ more than 10,000 people how to ___________ true from false. And we teach fact checkers all around the world.

Solution

  1. journalists
  2. distinguish
  3. phases
  4. taught
  5. entered
  6. called
  7. views
  8. started

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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