Monday, July 7, 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.

Macedonian PM publicly apologizes after he was deceived by pro-Kremlin Russian pranksters

By Metamorphosis Foundation, for Global Voices This story originally appeared on Meta.mk News Agency, a project of Metamorphosis Foundation. An edited version is published below as part...

Russian pundit claims liberal governments at war with religion

By Polygraph Alexander Nekrassov Political Analyst “Liberalism worships two things: money and debauchery ... Eventually, this worship made all democracies morph into atheistic regimes, who’ve been witch-hunting...

Russian ex-cosmonaut claims to have seen from space with ‘naked eye’ Ukrainian shelling of...

By Polygraph Elena Serova Russian State Duma Deputy, ex-cosmonaut "From the board of the International Space Station, I got to see with the naked eye, how the...

Rule, Britannia! A Round Table without King Arthur

By EU vs Disinfo In 1909, a group of British colonialists took the initiative to create a group, called the Society of the Round Table....

Putin tells Elton John Russia ‘unbiased’ toward LGBT community

By Polygraph Vladimir Putin Russian President "We really have a very smooth relationship with members of the LGBT community – really calm, perfectly unbiased.” Source: Ria Novosti...

Operation Secondary Infektion: The DFRLab Exposes a New Russian Influence Campaign

By EU vs Disinfo Allegations of planned political assassinations, lurid forgeries, false flag attacks, brazen online impersonations… the universe of Russian disinformation grows ever more...

Figures of the week: 3-10

By EU vs Disinfo It took 3 to 10 days for the Russian Internet Research Agency to increase polarization of the #BlackLivesMatter debate on Twitter,...

Lost in translation

By EU vs Disinfo Imagine that you are a politician or an expert commentator, and a Russian state-controlled TV channel calls you and asks for...

European Commission summarises its struggle against disinformation

In June, European Commission with Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy presented the report on the...

Evaluation of the EU elections: Many gaps still remain

By Jakub Kalenský, for Disinfo Portal Just weeks after the European Parliamentary elections, the European Commission (EU) has issued a report on the implementation of...