Friday, July 4, 2025

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.

Figure of the week: 1.3 billion

By EU vs Disinfo The Russian federal budget draft for 2020 is in and it shows that state-owned media will receive 1.3 billion euros next...

Sputnik and RT manipulation in Arabic: Al Rukban as a “Nazi Camp”

By EU vs Disinfo Up to 6.2 million Syrians have fled their homes inside Syria since the beginning of the Syrian conflict, and 5.6 million have been...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: Who is behind the top 5 Russian channels?

WHO IS BEHIND THE TOP 5 RUSSIAN CHANNELS? Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group has come up with an infographic covering the subjects behind the top 5 Russian...

WhatsApp’s message forwarding limits do work (somewhat) to stop the spread of misinformation

By Laura Hazard Owen, for NiemanLab Plus: “Newsworthiness” and how politicians are fact-checked on Facebook, and the number of countries with political disinformation campaigns has...

Poklonskaya suggests moving UN HQ to Crimea to end annexation “fairy tale”

By Polygraph Natalya Poklonskaya Member of Russian Parliament "In order to end all speculations and outdated and very annoying fairy tales from overseas about the annexation of...

Serbian journalists expose a ruling party bot application used to manipulate readers’ comments on...

By Filip Stojanovski, fpr Global Voices Activists of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), nicknamed ‘SNS bots’, have been using a mobile application to post...

The Kremlin Reads Nineteen Eighty-Four: Disinformation is Truth

By EU vs Disinfo Sputnik Latvia brings forward a quote by George Orwell from his novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four, commenting on the European Parliament’s resolution on the...

Russia insults and misquotes a U.S. Air Force Commander

By Polygraph Russian Defense Ministry “The frivolity of the commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe, General Jeffrey Harrigian, and his naive belief in the...

Figure of the week: 1/3

By EU vs Disinfo Only 1 in 3 Russians say they trust the news programmes on the state-controlled TV channels Pervyi Kanal and Rossiya 1,...

Ecuadorian leak. Millions of data records in the Web

Sources: vpnMentor, El Comercio, El Universo, BBC In the mid-September 2019 the rarely seen personal data leak had place. The data of over twenty million...