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Visser, Willy Aletta de (2017)

Misinformation in Ukrainian Media Coverage of the War: What is out there and where do we find it?

Master thesis | Russian and Eurasian Studies (MA)

Since the start of the war in Ukraine 3 years ago, much has changed in the country. In 2014, many wrote about misinformation in the Ukrainian news, but since then scholars have focussed mostly on Russian propaganda regarding the war. This thesis presents a case study on misinformation in the Ukrainian news and debates what the forms of misinformation found can tell us about the media landscape and the overall situation in Ukraine. It concludes that Ukraine clearly is a new democracy in which grave forms of misinformation such as propaganda are not found, although the news does show one-sidedness in its reporting on the war.

misinformation Ukraine war changes since 2014

Author

Visser, Willy Aletta de

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Supervisors

Bader, Max

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en