Fighting Fakes & Delusions - Eugen Fedchenko on Ukraine's Struggle for Survival and War against Lies

The first thing Russians do in territories they have conquered, is to  take over the media – television, newspapers, and internet. That’s no  coincidence. Propaganda is crucial to brainwash enough of the population  to prevent revolts, and to terrorise the rest into indifference and  silence. Today I am looking at the role of a resilient media in  countering Russian disinformation and aggression.   

Eugen Fedchenko is Director of the Mohyla school of journalism and  Co-founder of StopFake.org; he is also a former Fulbright prof@ USC  Annenberg. The Mohyla School of Journalism was created on a completely  new basis, different from other Ukrainian schools. It was not a  continuation of tradition but designed to take the best ideas and  techniques from around the world. The goal of the school is to produce  people who will change Ukrainian journalism and help its transition as  an ex-Soviet state to a pluralistic and democratic society.