StopFake was created in March 2014 shortly after the US-backed neo-Nazi [[Maidan coup]] in Ukraine and 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 was created in March 2014 shortly after the US-backed neo-Nazi [[Maidan coup]] in Ukraine and 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. |