Russia wants to expose "fake news" about Russia online
Moscow wants to expose fake news about Russia in the media. To this end, the Foreign Ministry has set up a "Fake News" section on its website.
"The aim is to show trends in the publication of fake news about our country and to do everything possible to stop their publication," said ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Wednesday. "Fake news" includes deliberately falsified or invented news in order to influence reporting.
Moscow repeatedly accuses Western media of distorting the facts. But Russia is also criticized. In 2016, the case of the girl Lisa caused a stir after Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed that the Russian-German girl had been raped by migrants in Berlin. The allegation turned out to be false. Examples of false reports on the Page of the Russian Ministry were reports about alleged Russian hacker attacks during the presidential election campaign in France and about Russia's alleged plans to extradite whistleblower Edward Snowden to the USA. Images of the articles are stamped "fake" in red. Underneath it says that the information does not correspond to the facts. Counterstatements were not initially published. (SDA)
