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.

The Bellingcat: Suspected Assassin In The Berlin Killing Used Fake Identity Documents

By Bellingcat Investigation Team What we know so far Last Friday, 23 August 2019, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Georgian citizen living in Germany, was assassinated in downtown...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: The Kremlin keeps twisting history with little repercussion

Topics of the Week The Kremlin twists history once again on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Germany and Finland show...

RT Questions Tusks’ Claim Ukraine a Better G7 Fit than Russia

FRANCE - World leaders pose for a a photograph during the G7 summit in Biarritz on August 25, 2019. By Polygraph RT anonymous author “How this made Kyiv...

Figure of The Week: 7

By EU vs Disinfo 7 Factors which Make Disinformation Appealing to our Brain Lies spread faster than truth, and the study by Eindhoven University of Technology suggests...

Towards Total Disinformation

By EU vs Disinfo Is it possible for media to be a little bit free? Russian lawmakers vow to introduce a new law that will further...

The fireworks of pro-Kremlin disinformation

By EU vs Disinfo This week is the 80th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact – a non-aggression agreement between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Labelled...

When you can’t trust a liar is lying – whom can you trust?

By EU vs Disinfo News Front has always been a reliable source of disinformation. The site, operated from illegally annexed Crimea, is ambitiously publishing lies...

Maybe you know that article is satire, but a lot of people can’t tell...

By R. Kelly Garrett, Robert Bond, and Shannon Poulsen, NiemanLab Labeling satire as such may seem to take the sting out of the joke. But...

One potential route to flagging fake news at scale: Linguistic analysis

By Fatemeh Torabi Asr, for The Conversation Have you ever read something online and shared it among your networks, only to find out it was...

Fake: Americans violate INF treaty

Treaty on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) speaks about total liquidation of intermediate-range nuclear missiles. It was sign on 8th December 1987 in Washington between...