Friday, May 3, 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.

Figure of the week: 52.8%

By EU vs Disinfo Proverb of a pro-Kremlin outlet: if 52.8% of respondents don’t fit into your story, just ignore them. On April 28th, RT...

A disillusioned democrat

By EU vs Disinfo It is now five years since the EU began to introduce sanctions against individual key actors in Russia’s aggression in Ukraine....

Figure of the week: 400 000

By EU vs Disinfo RT’s video about the Mueller report was recommended over 400 000 times on YouTube, Washington Post reports. The research by AlgoTransparency reveals...

Russia Today editor hits Reuters with a false claim

By Polyhraph Margarita Simonyan Chief Editor, Rossiya Segodnya, RT “We're showing a rally in support of Maduro in Caracas. Reuters is showing a green boulevard. Q.E.D.” Source:...

EU Elections Update: The Long Game

By EU vs Disinfo With the European parliamentary elections approaching in less than a month’s time, we devote this week’s Disinfo Review to a brief...

Strategic Baloney Bingo

By EU vs Disinfo The Strategic Culture Foundation – a Russia-based think tank frequently featured in our data base – published an article on the...

No news on the News Front

By EU vs Disinfo How a Pro-Kremlin Disinformation Outlet Tailors Content to Different European Audiences One frequent “guest” on our database of disinformation is News Front...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: What can the West do for Ukraine now?

NEW PUBLICATION The European Values Think-Tank introduces a new publication authored by our Non-resident Fellow Liubov Tsybulska: "Ukraine beyond 2019: Where should Western democracies assist?" It examines the...

Putin’s Claim about Retail Gasoline Prices in Russia is Inaccurate

By Polygraph Vladimir Putin Russian president “Well, everything seems normal with gasoline, only a 0.16 percent increase (in prices).” Source: Kremlin.ru, April 11, 2019 False The numbers reported...

Vassals, aliens, and green tarkhun

By EU vs Disinfo This past Sunday, Ukrainians elected a new president: in a landslide victory of over 73%, comedian and political novice Volodymyr Zelenskiy...