Saturday, April 20, 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.

Artificial ventilation of MH17 lies

By EU vs Disinfo What do you do when your disinformation campaign is running both out of time and oxygen? You start artificial respiration. As we head...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: Three former Russian intelligence officers charged in the MH17 investigation

Topics of the Week Four individuals, including 3 former Russian intelligence officers, charged in the MH17 investigation. The U.S. is launching cyber attacks, displaying a shift in...

An ecosystem of mistrust and disinformation

By Alex Romero, for Disinfo Portal This article is part one of a two-part series by Alto Data Analytics about the workings of disinformation in...

The strange similarities in narratives in the cases of Strache and Skripal

By EU vs Disinfo As a month has passed since the beginning of the scandal involving former vice-chancellor of Austria Heinz-Christian Strache, it’s time to...

The sin of omission

By EU vs Disinfo In a special kind of news manipulation, the problem is not what the story tells, but what it does not tell. When highly relevant...

Pro-Kremlin News Front praising Hitler

By EU vs Disinfo Russian disinformation outlet News Front is a regular provider of content for our database on disinformation. From them we have got...

Russia’s Defense Ministry falsely blames Syrian rebels for an attack on a Turkish army...

By Polygraph Russian Ministry of Defense "Aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces made four bombing strikes against terrorists in Idlib, the Defense Ministry reported. The coordinates...

Russian politician calls HBO Chernobyl ‘anti-Soviet filth’, falsely accuses producers of distortion

By Polygraph Dmitry Yevseyev leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation branch in the city of Cheboksary “The Chernobyl series … is packed with petty...

How Serbian Sputnik infiltrated a disinformation hub in Bosnia and Herzegovina

By EU vs Disinfo Although most of the sources of political disinformation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) are local media, a large disinformation hub is...

False friends

By EU vs Disinfo Everybody needs a friend – to laugh, cry or watch ‘‘Friends” episodes with, where every problem is solved sooner or later,...