Olga Yurkova: Inside the fight against Russia's fake news empire
Olga Yurkova: Der Kampf gegen das russische Fake-News-Imperium
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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die ukrainische Armee
Sloviansk city in eastern Ukraine.
in der Ostukraine ein.
in Lenin Square.
auf dem Leninplatz.
the public crucifixion
des Sohnes eines prorussischen Kämpfers.
to Russia's First TV channel.
Pyshnyak auf Russlands erstem TV-Kanal.
pro-Russia militant in Donbass.
ein prorussischer Kämpfer in Donbass.
from Russian propaganda and fake news
unter russischer Propaganda und Fake News,
the only player in this space.
der einzige Akteur auf diesem Gebiet.
all around the world.
what is fake and what is real,
was wahr und was falsch ist.
we get from the press and social media.
aus Presse und sozialen Medien.
stop believing anyone at all
to populists in elections,
leicht zum Opfer von Populisten
für den Journalismus,
für Demokratie und Gesellschaft.
ohne Hoheitsabzeichen
in den russischen Medien
with fake news about Ukraine.
über die Ukraine auf.
von Journalisten -- darunter auch ich --,
to investigate this fake news.
von Fake News zu starten.
check it with verifiable proof
mit eindeutigen Belegen,
and other strong evidence.
oder anderen starken Beweisen.
we put it on our website.
setzen wir sie auf die Website.
ein Informationszentrum,
in all its phases.
we have millions of views,
wir haben Millionen Besucher,
10.000 Leuten beigebracht,
all around the world.
überall auf der Welt.
more than 1,000 fakes about Ukraine.
über die Ukraine aufgedeckt.
ein faschistischer Staat sei,
as a result of a coup d'état.
die durch einen Putsch an die Macht kam.
nicht schlechter Journalismus ist,
von Fehlinformation.
in information warfare,
im Informationskrieg.
passiert es oft automatisch:
it's often automatic.
not be a part of fake news?
den Fake News entziehen?
too emotional, too clickbait,
zu emotional, zu reißerisch ist,
license plates, experts and offers.
Nummernschilder, Experten und Angebote.
to stop this culture of fake news.
um diese Fake-News-Kultur zu stoppen.
is not only about fake news.
nicht nur um Fake News.
auf Vertrauen angewiesen:
to rebuild trust,
wieder Vertrauen aufzubauen,
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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