Olga Yurkova: Inside the fight against Russia's fake news empire
올가 유르코바(Olga Yurkova): 러시아의 가짜뉴스 제국과의 전쟁
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.
동부 슬로뱐시크로 들어왔습니다.
in Lenin Square.
모든 지역주민을 소환합니다.
the public crucifixion
to Russia's First TV channel.
러시아 TV채널에서 이 이야기를 전합니다.
pro-Russia militant in Donbass.
돈바스의 친 러시아 군인이었습니다.
from Russian propaganda and fake news
러시아의 선전과 가짜뉴스로
the only player in this space.
이런 행위를 하는 건 아닙니다.
all around the world.
기승을 부리고 있습니다.
가짜 뉴스에 대해 알고 있죠.
what is fake and what is real,
구분할 수는 없다는데 있죠.
we get from the press and social media.
언론과 SNS상의 정보를 참조합니다.
stop believing anyone at all
누구도 믿으려 하지 않죠.
to populists in elections,
먹이가 되고
with fake news about Ukraine.
가짜뉴스에 열을 올리고 있었죠.
to investigate this fake news.
가짜뉴스를 찾아내기 시작했습니다.
check it with verifiable proof
사진, 영상 또는 강력한 근거자료를
and other strong evidence.
we put it on our website.
웹사이트에 이를 공개했습니다.
in all its phases.
we have millions of views,
조회수는 수백만에 달합니다.
all around the world.
more than 1,000 fakes about Ukraine.
가짜뉴스 1,000건 이상을 밝혀냈습니다.
as a result of a coup d'état.
다스린다는 식의 내러티브요.
형편없는 저널리즘의 결과가 아니라
in information warfare,
강력한 무기이지만
it's often automatic.
보통 자동으로 반응합니다.
not be a part of fake news?
일조하지 않을 수 있을까요?
too emotional, too clickbait,
감정적이며 낚시 기사인 경우
목표입니다.
license plates, experts and offers.
인가번호, 전문가, 저자.
to stop this culture of fake news.
막을 유일한 방법입니다.
is not only about fake news.
국한된 것이 아닙니다.
to rebuild trust,
우리에게 있습니다.
파괴하고 있기 때문이죠.
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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