Fact checks: from across the internet
Ukraine Fact Check presents fact checks on Ukraine in two different ways. Our team works to:
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Below, you can find the fact-check articles published by other websites across the internet.
Disclaimer: Ukraine Fact Check was not involved in producing the articles listed below. The information presented in them may be incorrect, incomplete, or misleading. As with any other type of article, read with a critical eye, check sources, and seek other opinions before making up your mind on important topics.
How Russian flag hoisting signals influence operations in Nigeria // FactCheckHub
Source published on: September 13, 2024 /
The #EndBadGovernance protest in Nigeria held in August 2024 took a new turn on its third day as some young Nigerians, particularly in the northern part of the country, were seen displaying the Russian flag, a move condemned by the federal government as âtreasonable.â
Indexed on 2024-10-14 07:08 // Categories: Fact checks / debunkings, International community, Nigeria, Russia, and Russian propaganda
DISINFORMATION ABOUT ZELENSKYY BUYING A £150 MILLION VILLA IN CYPRUS // Myth Detector (Georgia)
Source published on: June 5, 2024 /
The information about the purchase of a hotel is disinformation. The President of Cyprus, the Ukrainian Embassy in Cyprus, and the company that owns the hotel have denied the allegation about the purchase of the hotel by Zelenskyy or a related company. Moreover, the website on which the allegation about Zelenskyy’s connection to the hotel appeared turned out to be a clone of the hotel’s website and a fake website that was created three days before the information was spread.
Indexed on 2024-08-06 04:31 // Categories: Corruption, Disinformation, Fact checks / debunkings, Misconceptions, Narratives, Outrageous luxuries, and Ukraine
FACT CHECK: IMAGE CLAIMS UKRAINIANS HIT SU-57 DECOY // Check Your Fact (The Daily Caller)
Source published on: June 11, 2024 /
Verdict: False
The satellite image is from June 7, while the attack was on June 8. The person who obtained the image also refuted the claim.
Indexed on 2024-08-06 04:31 // Categories: Disinformation, Fact checks / debunkings, Media taken out of context, Methods, Misconceptions, Russia, and Ukraine
Fact Check: Is Tucker Carlson on Ukraine ‘Kill List’ Over Putin Interview? // Newsweek
Source published on: February 8, 2024 /
False.
The claim that the Mirotvorets list, which Alex Jones and Infowars refer to as a “kill list,” is inaccurate, as is the claim that Tucker Carlson was added to it following reports he had interviewed Vladimir Putin.
The list does not advocate violence toward those on it, which is part of an NGO, non-state-funded effort by Ukrainian activists to list “enemies of Ukraine.”
Carlson has been listed on the site since mid-2023.
Indexed on 2024-08-06 04:31 // Categories: Democracy, Fact checks / debunkings, Freedom of speech, Hatred and bigotry, Incitement & hate speech, Misconceptions, and Ukraine
Source published on: June 17, 2024 /
Did Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni say, “If Russia does not agree to the terms of the peace summit, we will force it to surrender”? No, that’s not true: The comments attributed to her come from a falsified Russian translation of what she said in English at the Ukraine Peace Summit held in Switzerland in June 2024. While Meloni has strongly criticized Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, no credible sources report her saying that Russia should be forced to surrender.
Indexed on 2024-08-06 04:31 // Categories: Disinformation, Fact checks / debunkings, Faked news reports, International community, Italy, Media taken out of context, Methods, Misconceptions, and Russia
Fact Check: Putin Defends Hitler’s Invasion of Poland in Carlson Interview // Newsweek
Source published on: February 9, 2024 /
True.
Based on a Russian transcript of Vladimir Putin’s interview with Tucker Carlson, Newsweek verified Putin said Adolf Hitler was “forced” to invade Poland, an inaccurate interpretation of the circumstances leading to World War II.
While translations do not use the word “forced” or “compelled”, they broadly match its meaning.
Indexed on 2024-08-06 04:31 // Categories: Coordinated disinformation, Fact checks / debunkings, Fascism, Germany, Hatred and bigotry, International community, Media taken out of context, Methods, Misconceptions, Nazism, Poland, Putin, and Russia
Source published on: June 3, 2024 /
Does a 50-second video show authentic remarks by U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller discussing “military targets” in the Russian city of Belgorod, with “virtually no civilians left” in that city?
No, that’s not true: The video mixes video of different briefings, during which Miller made no such remarks. The words falsely attributed to him in the video were AI-generated. The State Department labeled the video a deepfake.
The video of fake remarks was also posted by the Russian Embassy in South Africa account on X, but later that post was deleted.
Indexed on 2024-08-06 04:31 // Categories: Deep fake videos, Disinformation, Fact checks / debunkings, Faked news reports, International community, Media taken out of context, Methods, Misconceptions, Russia, and USA
Fake: Five Years Ago, Russian Language was Banned in Ukraine and Linguistic Genocide Has Began // StopFake.org
Source published on: May 20, 2024 /
The legislation in Ukraine regulating the use of the Ukrainian language does not apply to personal communication or religion, and does not provide for any criminal liability for violations of its norms, “language patrols” or “language inspectors”, as propaganda claims. Ukrainians themselves do not see any harassment of Russian-speaking Ukrainians, as evidenced by the results of opinion polls.
Indexed on 2024-08-06 04:31 // Categories: “Genocide” vs Russian-speakers, Coordinated disinformation, Cultural genocide, Disinformation, Fact checks / debunkings, Hatred and bigotry, Minorities in Ukraine, Misconceptions, Narratives, Russia, Russian propaganda, Ukraine, and War crimes
No, this video doesn’t show a Russian air strike on a NATO arms convoy // France 24, The Observers (France 24)
Source published on: June 7, 2024 /
A video of a massive fire circulated widely on social media in late April along with captions claiming it showed a strike by the Russian army on a NATO weapons convoy en route to Ukraine. However, it turns out that this is an old video that wasn’t filmed anywhere near Ukraine.
Indexed on 2024-08-06 04:31 // Categories: Aid to Ukraine, Disinformation, Fact checks / debunkings, International community, Israel, Media taken out of context, Methods, Military aid, Misconceptions, NATO, Russia, Russian propaganda, Ukraine, and USA
No, Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy did not buy a casino resort in Cyprus // Logically Facts
Source published on: June 10, 2024 /
The Verdict: False
There is no evidence that President Zelenskyy bought a casino in Cyprus; the claim originated from a fake website impersonating the resort.
Indexed on 2024-08-06 04:31 // Categories: Corruption, Disinformation, Fact checks / debunkings, Misconceptions, Narratives, Outrageous luxuries, and Ukraine
Russia targets Paris Olympics with deepfake Tom Cruise video | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian // Guardian
Source published on: June 3, 2024 /
The fake Cruise video, which appeared on the Telegram messaging platform last year, is called Olympics Has Fallen and uses artificial intelligence-generated audio of the film star’s voice to present a ‘strange, meandering script’ disparaging the IOC. The documentary, whose title riffs on the Gerard Butler action film Olympus Has Fallen, also claims falsely to have been produced by Netflix and is promoted with bogus five-star reviews from the New York Times and the BBC.
Indexed on 2024-08-06 04:31 // Categories: Coordinated disinformation, Deep fake videos, Fact checks / debunkings, France, International community, Methods, Misconceptions, Russia, and Russian propaganda
Russian has not been banned in Ukraine, despite repeated claims // PolitiFact
Source published on: June 8, 2022 /
Ukraine has not banned the use of the Russian language in the country.
A 2019 law established Ukrainian as the official language of Ukraine and strengthened its use in businesses, schools and the media.
Our ruling
Lavrov referenced the banning and prohibition of Russian in Ukraine, particularly in “education, the media, everyday contacts,” during a press conference.
Despite a language law that establishes Ukrainian as the country’s official language and prioritizes its use in civil society, Russian has not been banned.
We rate Lavrov’s statement False.
Indexed on 2024-08-06 04:31 // Categories: “Genocide” vs Russian-speakers, Coordinated disinformation, Cultural genocide, Disinformation, Fact checks / debunkings, Misconceptions, Narratives, Russia, Russian propaganda, Ukraine, Ukrainian culture, and War crimes
Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy Bought a Casino in Cyprus? // Snopes
Source published on: June 4, 2024 /
The claim that Zelenskyy purchased a casino in Cyprus is belied by the fact that the owners of that casino say they have not sold it, by the fact that the original reporting on the claim was based on a fake website, and by the fact that this original reporting was deleted. Because no real evidence supports the claim, Snopes rates it “False.”
Indexed on 2024-08-06 04:31 // Categories: Corruption, Disinformation, Fact checks / debunkings, Misconceptions, Narratives, and Outrageous luxuries
Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy has not introduced a law to allow for organ harvesting without consent // Logically Facts
Source published on: June 18, 2024 /
The Verdict: False
The law removed the need for notarization of consent, not the need for consent, as the false post claims.
Indexed on 2024-08-06 04:31 // Categories: Disinformation, Fact checks / debunkings, Misconceptions, Narratives, Organ farming, and Ukraine
Zelenskyy and Wife Photographed with Stacks of Money? | Snopes.com // Snopes
Source published on: June 12, 2024 /
Because the photograph was digitally edited to include Zelenskyy and Zelenska, we have rated this claim as “Fake.”
The TinEye reverse-image search tool showed that the original photograph [with stacks of money] depicted Floyd Mayweather, a former professional boxer.
Indexed on 2024-08-06 04:31 // Categories: AI-generated images, Corruption, Disinformation, Fact checks / debunkings, Methods, Misconceptions, Narratives, Outrageous luxuries, and Ukraine