Wednesday, May 15, 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.

Russian op-ed smears Ocasio-Cortez, mistaking memes for actual quotes

By Polyhraph Dmitry Kosyrev Political commentator, Russia Today "’In 1941, the Germans dropped an atomic bomb on us’: who now rules in the U.S.” Source: Ria Novosti, December...

Disinformation in 2018: Twelve embarrassing moments

By EU vs Disinfo Disinformation is a serious problem. It is used by the Kremlin as a means of gaining power in Russian domestic and foreign...

NASA disinvites Russian: Who is the biggest loser if space partnership with Russia unravels?

By Polygraph Pavel Vinogradov Russian Cosmonaut “This not fraught with anything for Russia; rather, (it is) for NASA and the USA.” Source: NSN.ru, January 5, 2019 FALSE Roscosmos will face...

2019: A year when fake news gets intimate and everyone disagrees on everything

Be Laura Hazard Owen, for NiemanLab The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard...

Russian agents in Western media

By Oleksandr Danylyuk, for International Policy Digest The exposure of a journalist of the German magazine, Der Spiegel, Claas Relotius, who falsified materials for his...

Year in review: 1001 messages of pro-Kremlin disinformation

By EU vs Disinfo “Lies and blatant fabrications” – this was how the British government described Russia’s clumsy attempt to conceal its hand in the nerve agent attack...

Putin’s ‘language of truth’ constantly fails fact-checking

By Polygraph Franz Klintsevich Ranking member of the Russian Federation Council’s Defense Committee “The Russian president always speaks with the people solely in the language of truth,...

2018 in Figures

By EU vs Disinfo 2018 has been a busy year for the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign, with Russian trolls and media working hard to spread falsehoods...

What did not happen in 2018?

By EU vs Disinfo What a year it’s been! 2018 will go down as the year NASA successfully landed a probe on Mars, Norway won a...

Holiday reading list: From ‘Macron leaks’ and IRA to WeChat and Russian interference

By EU vs Disinfo As disinformation never sleeps – and there might be some free time during the holiday season – EUvsDisinfo shares the creme...