Street art in Tirana, Albania with the motto “Support Ukraine.” Photo by Filip Stojanovski, CC-BY 3.0. This story by Ana Anastasovska was originally published by Truthmeter.mk, a fact-checking service from North Macedonia, member of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). An edited version is republished here under a content-sharing agreement between Global Voices and Metamorphosis Foundation. Little is known about who is behind the Russian “fact-checking” website “War on fakes”. The creators of the website identify themselves only as “administrators of several Russian non-political Telegram channels,” and not one of its authors is named. The site has no masthead, nor contact details or address. The fact-checking service of Poynter checked this website and deems its fact-checks parts of disinformation that use well-known techniques of Russian propaganda — incoherence, a large number of claims, repetition of statements on obvious untruths — to confuse the public trying to find out what is actually happening in Ukraine. For more than a year, since the beginning of the all-out invasion on Ukraine, Russia and its supporters have been trying aggressively to twist the role of Moscow in the war with what experts call a highly-powerful weapon in its arsenal — disinformation campaigns. Members of the global community of fact-checkers — including Truthmeter — debunk on daily basis many lies that try to distract the attention from potential Russian war crimes or to smear Kremlin's opponents. Nevertheless, Russian channels for spreading disinformation do not stop and they apply various techniques to confuse the public. One such example is a website and Telegram channel managed by Russia that falsely claims to be fact-checking to combat the “information war initiated against Russia.” More specifically, the site (War on Fakes) claims in its “Manifesto” (presented under the title “Manifest” in the right-hand column of their website)that they “consider it important to provide unbiased information about what is happening in Ukraine and on the territories of Donbass, because we see signs of an information war launched against Russia.” On March 4, 2022, soon after Russia attacked Ukraine, this website published a text claiming that it was revealing the idea that the Ukrainians were fighting an information war against the Russians. According to this War on Fakes text, not only were the Ukrainians disseminating “forgeries, productions and disinformation” to portray Russian forces in a “hostile manner,” but they were also apparently using professional actors and video-editing software to stage visuals of dead Russian soldiers and devastated Ukrainian cities. PolitiFact, the fact-checking service of US non profit Poynter Institute, analyzed this website and deemed its fact-checks parts of disinformation that use well-known techniques of Russian propaganda — incoherence, a large number of claims, repetition of statements on obvious untruths — to confuse the public trying to find out what is actually happening in Ukraine. PolitiFact contributing writer Luiz Romero wrote: War on Fakes employs a common strategy of Russian propaganda: It uses misleading information to produce noise that overwhelms readers, making them suspicious of official sources of information, and unable to believe — amid a multitude of false, deceiving and surreal claims about the war — in the very possibility of objective truth. The project does that through the hijacking of the fact-checking format. Readers who go to fact-checks expecting the ultimate truth are actually met with deception. There is very little information about who stands behind this Russian “fact-checking” website. There are no named authors on the website, and the people behind it identify themselves as “administrators of several Russian non-political Telegram channels.” The site has no masthead (imprint, impressum), contact details or address. On the contrary, actual fact-checking media outlets adhere to a set of standards that include strict rules for transparency of staff, ownership and sources of revenue. These standards are form of self-regulation enforced through adherence to the Code of Principles of the International Fact-Checking Network (EFCN), operating globally, as well as the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN), which has developed Code of Professional Integrity for European fact-checkers approved by 44 European organizations. Members of these networks voluntarily submit to the public process of annual independent audit or external evaluation that certifies that their produced work has been objective and true to the codes. None of this has been done by the fake fact-checkers, such as War on Fakes, which is not a member of any of these networks.