StopFake Tools
Tool Description: A fact-checking and verification resource focused primarily on identifying and debunking disinformation, misleading claims, and manipulated narratives.
Stop Fake Tools
Quick Overview
What it does
Checks claims and helps identify misinformation, disinformation and misleading content.
How to use it
Search StopFake's fact-checking content for a claim, story or narrative and compare its findings with the original material.
Cost
Free.
Account required
No.
Cookies
No Cookies belonging to Stop Fake itself. Google cookies present if being used in browser/logged in.
Ownership
StopFake, a Ukrainian fact-checking organisation associated with the Mohyla School of Journalism.
Use in Reporting
Supports claim verification, source assessment and corroboration of suspected disinformation.
What does StopFake Tools do?
StopFake Tools investigates questionable claims and media narratives, particularly those relating to Ukraine and Russian disinformation, and publishes fact-checks and analytical material. Its stated purpose is to check facts, verify information, and refute distorted information and propaganda.
The lowdown: It’s ideal for checking whether a specific claim, article, image or news story has already been fact-checked.
Note: StopFake itself maintains a corrections policy and acknowledges that fact-checking assessments can be challenged where new evidence is provided.
How to Use:
1. Identify the claim, article, image, video or narrative you want to check then search StopFake for relevant fact-checks or browse its published investigations and analysis.
2. Compare Stop Fake's findings with the original source and independent evidence before incorporating the conclusion into your reporting.
Cost
Data Processing
Account Required:
Cookies:
No Cookies belonging to StopFake itself were noted. Google cookies present if being used in browser/logged in.
Use in Reporting
StopFake can be used to:
Check whether a particular claim or narrative has already been fact-checked.
Identify evidence used to challenge misinformation or disinformation.
Corroborate findings from independent OSINT and media sources.
Establish the history and context of a disputed claim or narrative.
Document relevant fact-checks, publication dates and supporting evidence.
Support reporting on misinformation, propaganda and information operations.
Help distinguish between established evidence and unsupported or misleading claims.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in its publication ‘Who Said What? The Security Challenges of Modern Disinformation’ has a chapter on countering disinformation in Ukraine in which it discusses StopFake as a fact-checking project and source of research on Russian disinformation.
Capabilities
Limitations
Provides published fact-checks and investigative analysis.
Coverage is selective - not every claim will have been investigated.
Can provide evidence and sources supporting a fact-check.
Findings should not automatically be treated as definitive proof.
Useful for identifying recurring misinformation narratives.
Subject matter and geographic coverage can be uneven.
Can provide historical context around disputed claims.
Some investigations may rely on information that later changes.
Useful for corroborating independent OSINT findings.
Researchers should examine the underlying evidence rather than relying solely on the verdict.
Summary
StopFake fits best during the verification and analysis stages of the OSINT workflow. It’s particularly useful for misinformation and disinformation investigations and can be used after identifying a questionable claim, article, image or narrative to check whether it has already been investigated and to obtain additional evidence and context.
Ownership
Owned and operated by StopFake, a Ukrainian fact-checking organisation associated with the Mohyla School of Journalism. Its founding team included journalists, academics and students, with Yevhen Fedchenko identified as a co-founder and leader.
Ethical Considerations
Treat StopFake assessments as evidence to evaluate, not automatically as definitive proof.
Review the underlying sources and evidence supporting a fact-check.
Consider potential bias, methodology and scope when assessing findings.
Avoid presenting allegations or disputed claims as established facts.
Clearly distinguish between StopFake's assessment and your own independently verified findings.
Related Tools:
Full Fact
Sources
https://www.stopfake.org/ru/glavnaya-2/
https://www.stopfake.org/content/uploads/2014/03/Stopfake_en.pdf
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