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Is it likely that @Facebook& #39;s fact-checker of choice in Ukraine "Stop Fake" will cover issues related to the far right, neo-Nazism justly? Food for thought in these recent photos featuring Stop Fake& #39;s contributor Marko Suprun and known Ukrainian far-right, neo-Nazi figures.
The photos apparently taken at the January 2020 premier of a recent Ukrainian patriotic movie "Our Kittens" were posted to @Instagram page of Ukrainian neo-Nazi band "Sokyra Peruna".
The most notable far-right figure next to Marko Suprun in the photos is the lead singer of neo-Nazi "Sokyra Peruna" band Arseniy Bilodub. Bilodub is a seminal neo-Nazi organizer, and sits on the board of the Right Sector party. @ColborneMichael has more https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/.premium-the-upcoming-neo-nazi-concert-in-ukraine-that-no-one-is-talking-about-1.7391007">https://www.haaretz.com/world-new...
Arseniy Biolodub has long been involved with the "Sva Stone" neo-Nazi clothing brand, and reportedly runs it. Read more about "Sva Stone" from @nickrobinsearly https://www.huffpost.com/entry/facebook-nazi-clothing-extremism_n_5b5b5cb3e4b0fd5c73cf2986">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fac...
Although allegedly Marko Suprun has long been friends with the lead singer of the Sokyra Peruna band & neo-Nazi organizer Arseniy Bilodub, appeared next to him on various occasions, Stop Fake apparently doesn& #39;t think that this merits an explanation https://twitter.com/kooleksiy/status/1232067698785427456">https://twitter.com/kooleksiy...
Stop Fake& #39;s silence re the apparent relationship between SF contributor Marko Suprun and neo-Nazi figure Arseniy Bilodub is also notable because recently Stop Fake covered a scandal that Bilodub& #39;s band was an element of - https://www.stopfake.org/en/fake-fascism-returns-to-ukraine/">https://www.stopfake.org/en/fake-f...
In Jan 2020 photos Stop Fake& #39;s Suprun (recent @CNN guest, husband of ex-top official Ulana Suprun) is seen holding Diana Vynogradova/Kamluk, current Right Sector figure who spent time behind bars for her role in 2006 hate-motivated murder of a Nigerian man https://www.segodnya.ua/criminal/pervoe-v-ukraine-delo-o-racictckom-ubijctve-parni-bili-afrikantsa-nohami-i-vonzili-v-cpinu-nozh-90831.html">https://www.segodnya.ua/criminal/...
Diana Vynogradova/Kamluk seen with Stop Fake& #39;s Marko Suprun in recent photos is now better known as a "Right Sector" figure, but she& #39;s also notorious for "warning" 2013 Maidan protesters "not to give in to supplications from the K*kes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmssrhy5ZJE">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Standing next to Marko Suprun in the photo is also one of the leaders of Ukraine& #39;s notorious C14 group Voitko. His org (and C14& #39;s branch) "Union of Veterans of the War With Russia" receives $$ funding from the state https://twitter.com/kooleksiy/status/1222953083858309120?s=20">https://twitter.com/kooleksiy...
Stop Fake has long (and recently) been accused of downplaying Ukraine& #39;s far-right issues. It& #39;s only logical that now after being picked as @Facebook& #39;s fact-checker in Ukraine it should be held to a high standard. But IMO such criticism shouldn& #39;t be selective. limited to SF alone
When scrutinizing Stop Fake, asking questions re SF contributor& #39;s appearances next to notorious far right figures, remember that few in Ukraine see the far right, their violence as an issue. SF is simply in tune with Ukraine& #39;s civic society& Gov not West& #39;s https://twitter.com/kooleksiy/status/1100948789140045824">https://twitter.com/kooleksiy...
Fair to say that the highest Ukrainian officials (including Ukraine& #39;s president @ZelenskyyUa, others), civil society figures have no qualms about engaging with the far right as legitimate civic activists, partners etc. Examples truly ABOUND https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/11/11/ukraines-ministry-of-veterans-affairs-embraced-the-far-right-with-consequences-to-the-u-s/">https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-a...
Surely the far right barely have much support (~2% in recent elex), BUT it appears to be a FAIT ACCOMPLI that they are normalized, enjoy impunity, have outsized influence in some quarters in Ukraine. THIS is the issue that Western experts, leaders, media should address as a whole
. @Facebook& #39;s fact-checker of choice in Ukraine "Stop Fake" should explain its stance re far right and SF contributor Marko Suprun& #39;s appearances next to Ukrainian far-right& neo-Nazi figures, BUT let& #39;s admit it the Far Right have been normalized in Ukraine https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1249384258105495553.html">https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/12...
