Friday, March 29, 2024

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.

Nationalists in North Macedonia use border closures to sow confusion and mistrust

By Metamorphosis Foundation, for Global Voices This story is based on reporting by Global Voices’ content partner Meta.mk News Agency, a project of Metamorphosis Foundation. Check out...

95 percent of Russians now say victory in 1945 was main event for Russia...

By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia In the run-up to the pandemic-delayed Victory Day parade, 95 percent of Russians told VTsIOM that the victory over...

Throwing darts to see what sticks

By EU vs Disinfo A consistent principle of the Kremlin’s disinformation campaign is to keep its audience’s heads in a permanent state of spin. Confusion,...

Being occupied as a privilege

By EU vs Disinfo In September last year we revealed how the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs smeared the Baltic countries by claiming they have not become...

Iran, Russia dispute U.N. findings on Saudi oil attack

By Polygraph Majid Takht RavanchiIran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations:"‘Iranian origin’ of arms is a fallacy. UN Secretariat lacks capacity, expertise &...

Russian disinformation campaign against Ukraine is unfolding in Portugal

By InformNapalm Since the beginning of June, Russia has been actively pushing a new disinformation information operation against Ukraine in Portugal, with messages and narratives typical...

A fierce attack into nowhere

By EU vs Disinfo “Secondary Infektion” – Powerful, Useless and Dangerous Secondary Infektion is a campaign that since 2014 has used fake accounts and forged documents to...

Russia’s dishonesty about delays in Whelan spy case

By Polygraph Russian Foreign Ministry Department of Press and InformationPress service of the Russian Foreign Ministry“As is known, P. (Paul) Whelan himself delayed the familiarization...

USA Really, making Americans yawn since 2018

By EU vs Disinfo The wake-up call that makes you fall asleep In 2018, the Prigozhin Media group decided to wake up the Americans. Evgeniy Prigozhin...

An anti-American bandwagon

By EU vs Disinfo This week, the pro-Kremlin media’s focus on the US shifted from disinformation about the racial injustice protests to fabricated accusations of...