Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Context

Stories in the Context section are not fakes. We publish them in order to provide greater insight for our readers about the techniques, methods and practices used by the Russian government in its information war. They appear on our site with the permission of their original publisher and reflect the views of the authors and not necessarily the position of StopFake’s editorial board.

Weaponising Climate Change to Undermine the West

By EUvsDisinfo The pro-Kremlin disinformation machine is seeking to undermine the EU’s sanctions policy by attacking its Green Deal. In its quest for the tiniest bit...

Information Threat Forecast by Center for Countering Disinformation, Early November 2025

By Center for Countering Disinformation 1. Intensification of Information Campaigns Regarding EU and US Sanctions In response to the adoption of new sanctions by the United...

Large Language Models: the New Battlefield of Russian Information Warfare

By EUvsDisinfo In the digital age, disinformation campaigns have evolved beyond social media and ‘fake news’, becoming a full form of information warfare – an...

Strain Beneath the Surface: Russia’s Economic Pressures Amid a Continuing Conflict

By EUvsDisinfo The Kremlin’s planners prepared well for their full-scale invasion of Ukraine, building up currency reserves and later boosting growth through military spending. But...

For the Kremlin, Elections Are Golden Opportunities for interference

By EUvsDisinfo On 4 and 5 October, Czech voters went to the polls to elect a new parliament. And the Kremlin once again saw an...

Russian ‘Fact-Checking’ Network: EU-Sanctioned Brazilians Among Its Members

By Maiquel Rosauro, for Lupa Read the Portuguese version of this feature. Two Brazilian journalists—one linked to organizations sanctioned by the European Union and the other a collaborator...

Russia Uses a ‘Fact-Checker Network’ to Try to Legitimize Elections in Venezuela

By Maiquel Rosauro, for Lupa Read the Portuguese version of this feature. The first part of the report: The “truth war”: how Russia created its own ‘fact-checking’ network “In...

From Social Media to Weapon Factories: How Russia Traps African Women in War Production

By EUvsDisinfo What looks like a dream job abroad is, in reality, a conveyor belt into Moscow’s war machine. Influencers generally promote beauty products, holiday destinations,...

The “truth war”: how Russia built its own ‘fact-checking’ network

By Maiquel Rosauro, for Lupa Who controls the narrative controls power. Working from that logic, in November 2024 the Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN)—an association that publicly...

Kremlin Disinfo Surge Targets Moldova ahead of Elections

By EUvsDisinfo As Moldova prepares for its parliamentary elections on September 28, the country is facing an unprecedented wave of hybrid threats and FIMI. The Kremlin-backed propaganda...