Sunday, July 6, 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.

Kremlin Watch Briefing: The murderer of ethnic Chechen in Berlin has been linked to...

Topics of the Week German government remains silent after the murderer of ethnic Chechen in Berlin has been linked to the GRU. The dangers posed by social networks...

Political trolling in Hungary

By Péter Krekó, András Rácz and Patrik Szicherle, for DisinfoPortal With the 2019 Hungarian municipal elections approaching, disinformation campaigns and trolling activity will play an...

In Belgium, the Sleeping Beauty awakes, but slowly

By Tim Pauwels, for DisinfoPortal It might come as a surprise, but the land that hosts the European capital is still very much a blind...

Russia claims Baltic States never turned democratic

By Polygraph Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Twitter account “In the early 90s the Baltic nations, after over 50 years of being a part of the #SovietUnion,...

Lega Nord’s Bedfellows: Russians offering illicit funding to Italian far-right party identified

By Christo Grozev, for Bellingcat In a previous joint investigation with BuzzFeed News and the Insider, Bellingcat disclosed the inordinately frequent travel of two Italian...

Figure of the week: 55%

By EU vs Disinfo Between May and July 2019, bots accounted for a staggering 55% of all Russian-language Twitter messages about the NATO presence in...
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Fake news can create false memories

Fake news can influence our memories – prove the results of the research published by the Association for Psychological Science (APS, earlier known as...

How the (ro)bots follow celebrities and politicians

The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP) in London has recently published the results of the investigation about the authenticity of the accounts following...

Don’t mention Crimea!

By EU vs Disinfo The facts about Crimea’s annexation are now a taboo in Russia and subject to censorship. When the Russian version of Israeli author...

The imperialist West strikes again (also, sex!)

By EU vs Disinfo Of the Kremlin’s favoured disinformation narratives, perhaps the most enduring is whataboutism about the supposedly persistent evils of Western imperialism and...