After years of debunking Putin’s lies, Ukraine’s infowarriors come prepared

Maidan revolution spurred on two dedicated fact-checkers to use new tech to fight Russia’s propaganda machine

05 April 2022 - 20:09 By Elizabeth Piper

For Yevhen Fedchenko, the information war hit home when his aunt said she would not come to visit because she believed she would be beaten and killed in Ukraine for speaking Russian...

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