Sunday, May 10, 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.

Russian senator falsely claims poles closed airspace to virus aid

By Polygraph Alexey PushkovChairman of the commission on information policy of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of Russia’s parliament"Poland did not let Russian aircraft...

The community of collapse

By EU vs Disinfo The Kremlin, the conspiracy theorists and the coronavirus In an article last year, EUvsDisinfo described the dialogue of disinformation. Disinformation outlets need...

Sputnik: Coronavirus could be designed to kill elderly Italians

By EU vs Disinfo In a time that calls for international cooperation to fight a common threat, Kremlin mouthpiece Sputnik chooses to spread disinformation about COVID-19.  A Sputnik article published...

Disinformation can kill

By EU vs Disinfo There is only one priority now: all national, European, and international resources are focused on containing the COVID-19 outbreak. The virus...

Combating ‘fake news’ in the time of COVID-19 in Myanmar

Source: Global Voices This edited article by Nan Lwin is from The Irrawaddy, an independent news website in Myanmar, and is republished on...

The great phony: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fake quarantine letter

By Polygraph All across the Internet“Read the classics. This is a quarantine letter by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was isolated in south of France...

Figure of the week: 76 million

By EU vs Disinfo Advertisements for some of the best-known global brands are funding some of the most notorious disinformation sites in Europe – to...

‘Russophobic’: Kremlin denies evidence of Russian COVID-19 disinformation campaign

By Polygraph Dmitry PeskovRussian Presidential Spokesman“It is about some groundless accusations. In fact, this Russophobic obsession could be expected to fade under the current...

EEAS SPECIAL REPORT: Disinformation on the coronavirus – short assessment of the information environment

By EU vs Disinfo Note: The objective of this report is to provide a snapshot overview of the current trends and insights into disinformation activities...

The virus to liberate us from freedom

By EU vs Disinfo Alexander Dugin, a Russian nationalist philosopher with close ties to the Kremlin, is relishing in the COVID-19 outbreak. We are living in...