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The StopFake website is a project of Ukrainian media NGO Media Reforms Center. It was founded in March 2014 by Ukrainian professors and students with the stated purpose of refuting Russian propaganda and fake news. It began as a Russian- and English-language fact-checking organization, and has grown to include a TV show broadcast on 30 local channels, a weekly radio show, and a strong social media following.
StopFake was founded as a volunteer effort, but by 2017 included paid employees on its team. It is largely funded by grants. It has received praise from other media outlets. In 2014 it received a BOBs award from Deutsche Welle and a Free Media Pioneer Award from the International Press Institute.
The organization grew out of an online discussion between faculty and alumni of National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Margot Gontar (at that point a recent master's graduate of the Mohyla journalism program), Oleg Shankovskyi, Ruslan Deynychenko, and Yevhen Fedchenko (a professor of journalism at Mohyla Academy) co-founded the organization in 2014. The website StopFake.org went live on 2 March 2014. It was founded shortly after the invasion and annexation of Crimea by Russia.
In its first four months of operation, its website averaged one and a half million visitors per month.
In November 2016, the organization became a partner in the First Draft News network.
StopFake opposes the spread of disinformation by Russia, focusing on information disseminated on social media. including through the use of digital tools. It produces StopFake News, a weekly television show hosted by co-founder Gontar only about fake news, and holds the standard that "[i]f fact checkers cannot prove that a story published or broadcast by another news media outlet is false, it will not be featured in the weekly airing".
Following the allegations of Russian influence in the 2016 United States presidential election, StopFake began to gain international recognition. The site has been financed by crowdfunding, readers' contributions, the Renaissance Foundation, National Endowment for Democracy, National Democratic Institute, German Marshall Fund, the Foreign Ministry of the Czech Republic, the Foreign Ministry of the United Kingdom, the British Embassy in Ukraine, and the Sigrid Rausing Trust. In 2022 Fortune described it as operating on a "shoestring budget".
StopFake started as a volunteer effort, but it had 26 paid staff members by 2017. CBS News reported in February 2022 that it was run by volunteers and journalism students. In April 2022 The Washington Post reported that it had 15 employees.
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The StopFake website is a project of Ukrainian media NGO Media Reforms Center. It was founded in March 2014 by Ukrainian professors and students with the stated purpose of refuting Russian propaganda and fake news. It began as a Russian- and English-language fact-checking organization, and has grown to include a TV show broadcast on 30 local channels, a weekly radio show, and a strong social media following.
StopFake was founded as a volunteer effort, but by 2017 included paid employees on its team. It is largely funded by grants. It has received praise from other media outlets. In 2014 it received a BOBs award from Deutsche Welle and a Free Media Pioneer Award from the International Press Institute.
The organization grew out of an online discussion between faculty and alumni of National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Margot Gontar (at that point a recent master's graduate of the Mohyla journalism program), Oleg Shankovskyi, Ruslan Deynychenko, and Yevhen Fedchenko (a professor of journalism at Mohyla Academy) co-founded the organization in 2014. The website StopFake.org went live on 2 March 2014. It was founded shortly after the invasion and annexation of Crimea by Russia.
In its first four months of operation, its website averaged one and a half million visitors per month.
In November 2016, the organization became a partner in the First Draft News network.
StopFake opposes the spread of disinformation by Russia, focusing on information disseminated on social media. including through the use of digital tools. It produces StopFake News, a weekly television show hosted by co-founder Gontar only about fake news, and holds the standard that "[i]f fact checkers cannot prove that a story published or broadcast by another news media outlet is false, it will not be featured in the weekly airing".
Following the allegations of Russian influence in the 2016 United States presidential election, StopFake began to gain international recognition. The site has been financed by crowdfunding, readers' contributions, the Renaissance Foundation, National Endowment for Democracy, National Democratic Institute, German Marshall Fund, the Foreign Ministry of the Czech Republic, the Foreign Ministry of the United Kingdom, the British Embassy in Ukraine, and the Sigrid Rausing Trust. In 2022 Fortune described it as operating on a "shoestring budget".
StopFake started as a volunteer effort, but it had 26 paid staff members by 2017. CBS News reported in February 2022 that it was run by volunteers and journalism students. In April 2022 The Washington Post reported that it had 15 employees.