Friday, April 26, 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.

Trolling European Elections 2014 – 2019

By EU vs Disinfo Kremlin attempts at election meddling in Europe started as far back as 2014, research by Cardiff University’s Crime and Security Research...

Russian TV: Joe Biden covers up trade in human organs

By EU vs Disinfo The wife of Georgia’s ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili supervises trade in organs taken from wounded Ukrainian soldiers. And former US Vice President...

Russia’s international broadcasters: Turning the Serbian media into a disinformation hub

By Polygraph Sputnik Srbija leads the ratings for political disinformation among Serbian-language foreign media operating in the Balkans, according to an upcoming report by the...

Eastern Partnership = Alliance against Russia. Fakes about Ukraine’s EU Cooperation

Friendship vs. Russia, Russophobic organization, veiled colonization of Ukraine and other countries – these are just a few of the epithets that Russian media...

#EUelections2019: The danger of ignoring disinformation’s long-term goals

By Jakub Kalenský, for Disinfo Portal In recent interviews about disinformation in the run-up to the EU elections, many journalists and government officials focusing on...

EU elections update: Reaping what was sown

By EU vs Disinfo This week, European citizens head to the polls to vote in the European Union’s ninth parliamentary elections. 751 MEPs will be...

Russian gave Pompeo old article to prove no election meddling

By Polygraph Sergey Lavrov Russian Foreign Minister “As for the question that you asked US Secretary of State on the allegations regarding Russia meddling in the US...

Closet Russian site hides revealing metadata

By EU vs Disinfo Recently euvsdisinfo.eu published an article about the Russia-based site South Front, describing how the site is based in Russia, how its...

Figure of the week: 3

By EU vs Disinfo Three victims of online disinformation speak out, sharing their personal experiences of facing online and off-line harassment and threats. One of the...

Russian disinfo patterns: “NATO is to blame for Kaliningrad’s militarization”

By Lukas Andriukaitis, for Integrity Initiative Lukas Andriukaitis is Associate Analyst at Vilnius Institute for Policy Analysis and a Digital Forensic Research Associate at Atlantic...