Fake news imposter website
1st December 2013
One of the primary independent news websites in Ukraine is УкраїнÑька Правда (The Ukrainian Truth).
There exists, however, an imposter website, which blatantly edits news reports to discredit Ukrainian people disagreement with the recent actions of the president and the government.
I call this website “imposter”, because they have the same name (but in Russian) as the above-mentioned original website, a similar domain name, and they also use exactly the same short-name (“УП”). Not a single serious news website would do so.
They, however, only post news in Russian, while the original website is published in both Ukrainian and Russian (with blogs available in the language of the blog’s author). It is clear that the idea behind the fake news website ukrpravda.ua is to influence and manipulate the opinions of the Russian-speaking people unaware of the true nature of that imposter website.
It should be of no surprise that domain name of the imposter is currently hosted by a Russian web-development company “rossiysky.net”:
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