Fake News Can Ruin Lives, Says Stopfake.org Founder
Stopfake(dot)org is a fact-checking website that uncovers news containing false information on Ukraine. DW spoke with its co-founder, Margot Gontar, about fact-checking and the danger of fake news.
Margo Gontar is the co-founder of Stopfake.org- a fact-checking website that was launched in March to check facts, verify information and refute false news about the events in Ukraine in the media. The service is staffed by volunteers.
DW: How do I go about determining whether news is fabricated?
Margo Gontar: You can submit it via a form that we have on the site. Or you can use our mail to send us information that bothers you. And so we later get to that and work with that.