Olga Yurkova: Inside the fight against Russia's fake news empire
Olga Yurkova: Het gevecht tegen Rusland's nepnieuwsimperium
TED Fellow Olga Yurkova is a journalist and cofounder of StopFake.org, an independent Ukrainian organization that trains an international cohort of fact-checkers in an effort to curb propaganda and misinformation in the media. Full bio
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Sloviansk city in eastern Ukraine.
Sloviansk in Oost-Oekraïne binnen.
in Lenin Square.
op het Lenin plein.
the public crucifixion
van een pro-Russische militant.
to Russia's First TV channel.
dit verhaal op Rusland's eerste tv zender.
is dit incident nooit gebeurd.
pro-Russia militant in Donbass.
een pro-Russische militant in Donbass.
from Russian propaganda and fake news
van Russische propaganda en nepnieuws,
the only player in this space.
niet de enige speler.
all around the world.
nepnieuws verspreid.
what is fake and what is real,
wat onjuist is en wat echt,
we get from the press and social media.
via de pers en sociale media.
stop believing anyone at all
zelfs niemand meer
to populists in elections,
aan populisten tijdens verkiezingen
slecht voor journalistiek.
voor de democratie en de samenleving.
traden ongemerkte soldaten
with fake news about Ukraine.
nepnieuws over Oekraïne te verspreiden.
journalisten, waaronder ikzelf,
to investigate this fake news.
te onderzoeken.
check it with verifiable proof
controleer het met verifieerbare bewijzen
and other strong evidence.
en ander sterk bewijsmateriaal.
we put it on our website.
zetten we het op onze website.
een informatiecentrum
in all its phases.
in al haar fases.
we have millions of views,
we hebben miljoenen kijkers,
10,000 mensen aangeleerd
onderscheiden kan worden
all around the world.
over de hele wereld.
more than 1,000 fakes about Ukraine.
over Oekraïne blootgelegd.
as a result of a coup d'état.
door een staatsgreep.
van slechte journalistiek,
in information warfare,
in de informatieoorlog,
it's often automatic.
gaan we op de automatische piloot.
not be a part of fake news?
distantiëren van nepnieuws?
too emotional, too clickbait,
te emotioneel, te 'klik-aas' is,
license plates, experts and offers.
experten en aanbiedingen.
van nepnieuws een halt toe te roepen.
to stop this culture of fake news.
is not only about fake news.
gaat niet alleen over nepnieuws.
is afhankelijk van vertrouwen:
to rebuild trust,
om vertrouwen terug op te bouwen,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Olga Yurkova - Journalist, editorTED Fellow Olga Yurkova is a journalist and cofounder of StopFake.org, an independent Ukrainian organization that trains an international cohort of fact-checkers in an effort to curb propaganda and misinformation in the media.
Why you should listen
Olga Yurkova edits the Context and Opinions sections of StopFake.org. She teaches different audiences how propaganda works and how to identify fake news, consulting a range of organizations and public structures and collaborating with mainstream media as a journalist.
Yurkova explores propaganda methods and finds out new ways to overcome these new challenges. In June 2017, she and her colleagues Maarten Schenk and Jordy Nijenhuis launched a project called Forbidden Facts, which explains how fake news spreads online through clickbait headlines on Facebook that reach out to skeptical audiences.
Yurkova has 15 years of experience in journalism. She headed the local multimedia newsroom in Ternopil city for six years, becoming the market leader during that time. She then ran the Donbas and Crimea department at the national multimedia newsroom Nova Informacia for three years. She has been working as a new media trainer since 2012.
For fighting propaganda, Yurkova was included into the list of New Europe 100 and was named a TED Fellow in 2018.
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