Olga Yurkova: Inside the fight against Russia's fake news empire
Olga Yurkova: La lucha detrás contra el imperio ruso de noticias falsas
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.
de Sloviansk, en el este de Ucrania.
in Lenin Square.
en la Plaza Lenin.
the public crucifixion
to Russia's First TV channel.
contó la historia
pro-Russia militant in Donbass.
pro-Rusia en Donbáss.
from Russian propaganda and fake news
y las falsas noticias rusas
que lo está haciendo.
the only player in this space.
all around the world.
se esparcen por todo el mundo.
las vemos y leemos todo el tiempo.
qué es falso y qué es real,
what is fake and what is real,
we get from the press and social media.
se basan en hechos
y de las redes sociales.
stop believing anyone at all
to populists in elections,
para los populistas en las elecciones,
solo para el periodismo,
la sociedad y la democracia.
entraron a la península de Crimea
con noticias falsas sobre Ucrania.
with fake news about Ukraine.
del que yo era parte,
investigar estas noticias falsas.
to investigate this fake news.
buscar pruebas de su veracidad,
check it with verifiable proof
and other strong evidence.
y otras evidencias concretas,
we put it on our website.
la ponemos en nuestro sitio web.
un centro de información
in all its phases.
we have millions of views,
y tenemos millones de visitas.
cómo distinguir lo verdadero de lo falso
all around the world.
de información en todo el mundo.
more than 1,000 fakes about Ukraine.
más de mil noticias falsas sobre Ucrania.
un estado fallido,
as a result of a coup d'état.
que llegó al poder por un golpe de estado.
que no es mal periodismo,
in information warfare,
en la guerra de la información,
it's often automatic.
a menudo es automático.
not be a part of fake news?
ser parte de las falsas noticias?
too emotional, too clickbait,
demasiado sensacionalista,
que no sea cierto.
license plates, experts and offers.
matrículas, expertos y ofertas en Google.
to stop this culture of fake news.
esta cultura de noticias falsas.
is not only about fake news.
no se trata solo de noticias falsas.
to rebuild trust,
la forma de restaurar esa confianza,
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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