Friday, April 24, 2026

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.

Faked videos shore up false beliefs about Biden’s mental health

By Dustin Carnahan, for The Conversation From Ronald Reagan in 1984 to Bob Dole in 1996 and even Hillary Clinton in 2016, candidate health has become a common theme across...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: How vulnerable are the Western Balkans countries towards foreign authoritarian influence?

Foreign Authoritarian Influence in the Western Balkans Political Capital Institute, in cooperation with the European Values Center for Security Policy, Institute for Democracy "Societas Civilis"...

As New Uighur Detention Facilities Emerge, China’s Denials and Disinfo Persist

By Mariana Castro, for Polygraph Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs“The religious freedom and other rights of people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, including the...

Filmmaker Falsifies Fake Forgery

By EU vs Disinfo It’s fake, fake, fake! Filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov did not leave his audience in any doubt when demonstrating that the vast crowds of...

Ryszard Siwiec – the greatest sacrifice in the name of freedom

On 8th September 1968 during the national harvest festival on the 10th-Anniversary Stadium in Warsaw in the presence of communist dignitaries of the Polish...

Fabricating A Fabrication

By EU vs Disinfo When pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets can’t find dirt on its targets, they fabricate it. The phenomenon has been documented earlier: In 2012,...

PM Mateusz Morawiecki: In Europe we need courage and leadership, not indulgence towards Moscow’s...

The answer of the European Union or even broader, the Western states, to the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the annexation of the Crimea...

Fake: Federal Government of Germany’s actions concerning Aleksey Navalny are glaring hostile provocation against...

On 9th September the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Russian Federation Géza Andreas von Geyr was summoned...

Poles do not blame Russians for Kremlin’s policies

Most of the Poles is critical towards Vladimir Putin’s actions. However, the Russian leader is applauded by 9% of Polish citizens. The authors of the...

Facebook: Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior

By Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Security Policy, Facebook We removed three separate networks for violating our policy against foreign or government interference which is coordinated...