Olga Yurkova

This speaker attended in 2021

Olga Yurkova is a journalist and co-founder of StopFake.org, an independent Ukrainian organization that trains an international cohort of fact-checkers in an effort to curb propaganda and disinformation in the media. She teaches different audiences how propaganda works and how to identify fake news, consulting a range of organizations and public structures and collaborating with mainstream media as a journalist. For fighting propaganda, Olga was included in the list of New Europe 100 and was named a TED Fellow in 2018. Believes that there are no limits to human perfection, but there is one truly perfect creature in the world - and that is a cat.