Saturday, February 14, 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 TV’s False Claims About Morales, Pompeo

By Polygraph Olga Skabeyeva, Yevgeny PopovRussian state TV hosts“We know perfectly well those who arranged all this, who sought the resignation of Morales –...

Who’s Afraid of the Brown Stink Bug?

By EU vs Disinfo Measles and swine flu epidemics, bioweapons, lethal experiments on people… – Georgian Lugar Lab has been subject of a massive disinformation...

China’s Mid-Election Information Campaign in Taiwan

By Ketty W. Chen, for Disinfo Portal In the midst of the struggle between authoritarian influence and democratic resilience, Taiwan stands at the forefront...

“Troubling”: High school students (like most people) are not good at evaluating misinformation

By Christine Schmidt, for Nieman Lab Sad non-surprise: Young people are not great — actually are kind of terrible — at evaluating digital sources on...

Hey Daily Mail: It’s ‘Ki-yeev,’ Not ‘KEEV’

By Polygraph The Daily Mail British Tabloid Twitter is stunned to discover during the impeachment hearing that Ukrainians prefer Kyiv is pronounced 'KEEV' and not 'Key-Ev'...

Russia and Syria: U.S.-backed Syrian Forces blocking refugee return

By Polygraph The Russian and Syrian defense ministries “A cause for serious concern is the situation in southern Syria, where U.S.-controlled bandit formations, operating in...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: Boris Johnson accused of ignoring evidence of Russian interference

Topics of the Week British Prime Minister accused of ignoring evidence of Russian interference. The US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director warned Russia against...

Putin announces plan to ‘replace’ Wikipedia

By Eilish Hart, for Global Voices An electronic version of the Great Russian Encyclopedia would provide "reliable information," says the president. On November 5, 2019, Russian...

Incompetent disinformation

By EU vs Disinfo The greatest threat to the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign is not always a strong pushback by the Kremlin’s external opponents. Sometimes the disinformation...

Disinformation Review: In the cards this week

By EU vs Disinfo Cartomancy is the concept of fortune-telling, using a deck of cards. The similarity with traditional pro-Kremlin disinformation is strong: the disinformation...