World Forum for Democracy 2019: Speakers
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Olga YURKOVA
Media expert and co-founder of NGO “StopFake"
Ukraine
Discussant:
LAB 5 - Voting Under the Influence
Discussant:
Forum Talk 2: Disinformation and Fake News
Olga Yurkova is a journalist and cofounder of StopFake, an independent Ukrainian organization that trains an international cohort of fact-checkers in an effort to curb propaganda and disinformation in the media. She teaches different audiences how [prooaganda works and how to identify fake news, consulting a range of organizations and public structures. She has 15 years in journalism. Yurkova has been working as a media trainer since 2012. For fighting propaganda, she was included in the list of New Europe 100 and was named a TED Fellow in 2018. Her TED Talk was watched more than 1 million times.