Olga Yurkova: Inside the fight against Russia's fake news empire
Olga Yurkova: Por dentro da luta contra o império de notícias falsas da Rússia
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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cidade de Sloviansk, no leste da Ucrânia.
Sloviansk city in eastern Ukraine.
in Lenin Square.
na Praça Lenine.
the public crucifixion
a crucificação pública
to Russia's First TV channel.
contou esta história
pro-Russia militant in Donbass.
um ativo militante pró-Rússia em Donbass.
russa e notícias falsas
from Russian propaganda and fake news
a única responsável por esta situação.
the only player in this space.
all around the world.
em todo o mundo.
é que nem sempre sabemos
what is fake and what is real,
we get from the press and social media.
e pelos "media".
stop believing anyone at all
de acreditar em toda a gente,
to populists in elections,
de populistas em períodos eleitorais,
somente o jornalismo.
e para a sociedade.
soldados não identificados
with fake news about Ukraine.
imensas notícias falsas sobre a Ucrânia.
em que eu me incluo,
to investigate this fake news.
essas notícias falsas.
check it with verifiable proof
com provas verificáveis
and other strong evidence.
e outras provas consistentes.
we put it on our website.
colocamo-la no nosso "site".
informativa que analisa propaganda
in all its phases.
we have millions of views,
milhões de visualizações,
all around the world.
de factos em todo o mundo.
1000 notícias falsas sobre a Ucrânia.
more than 1,000 fakes about Ukraine.
tais como:
as a result of a coup d'état.
que chegou ao poder via golpe de estado".
de informações erradas.
em tempo de guerra de informações,
in information warfare,
it's often automatic.
- é um gesto automatizado -
espalharmos notícias falsas?
not be a part of fake news?
too emotional, too clickbait,
alternativas de notícias.
license plates, experts and offers.
matrículas, especialistas e ofertas.
to stop this culture of fake news.
esta cultura de notícias falsas
não se prende só com notícias falsas.
is not only about fake news.
de reconstruir a confiança,
to rebuild trust,
destroem-na.
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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