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===Nazi apologist===
===Nazi apologist===
{{See also|Maidan coup}}
{{See also|Maidan coup}}
According to her own account, Jankowicz “advised the [[Ukrainian]] government on strategic communications under the auspices of a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship.” Prior to her Fulbright grant in Ukraine, Jankowicz managed “democracy assistance programs” to [[Russia]] and [[Belarus]] at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, a core part of the [[CIA]] [[regime change]] [[front organization]], the [[National Endowment for Democracy]].
StopFake was created in March 2014, the same month as InformNapalm, which runs the Ukrainian Nazi kill list, [[Myrotvorets]]. It claims to have “launched as a volunteer project” “not supported financially or otherwise by any official Ukrainian organization or government agency.” This assertion was undermined by the fact that it admits to receiving funding from a host of Western governments and intelligence-linked agencies, such as the [[Atlantic Council]], the International Renaissance Foundation (the Ukraine branch of [[George Soros]]’ [[Open Society Foundations]]), the Foreign Ministry of the [[Czech Republic]], the Embassy of the [[United Kingdom]], and nearly $250,000 from the British Foreign Office.
StopFake has also received funds from the Sigrid Rausing Trust, which states that it paid the Media Reforms Center (the parent of StopFake) £205,000 (around $250,000) between 2015 and 2019. StopFake does not admit to the money which it received from the National Endowment for Democracy, the CIA front group.
The claim to be unaffiliated with the government is also undermined by a leaked Ukrainian Defense Ministry PowerPoint presentation from 2015 which lists StopFake as one of their “special projects.”
Both Cormac Smith and Jankowicz consulted StopFake in their capacity as government advisers.
StopFake has a deserved reputation for Nazi apologism. In 2018, the site defended military boot camps for children run by the Neo-Nazi group, the [[Azov Battalion]]. In 2017, Jankowicz hosted a StopFake video episode about Russian propaganda and Ukrainian volunteer battalions.
On Jankowicz and StopFake, ''[[The Nation]]'' stated:
{{quotebox-float|"Painting neo-Nazi paramilitaries with an extensive record of [[war crime]]s as patriots helping refugees, all while working with a ‘disinformation’ group that turned out to run interference for violent neo-Nazi formations—that’s the experience Biden’s new disinformation czar brings to the table.”}}
===Trump-Russia hoax===
===Trump-Russia hoax===