Friday, March 29, 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.

Anatomy of a Russian media escalation

​By Polygraph Point of View The latest escalation in the Sea of Azov provides a case study of how Russia’s vast state disinformation apparatus is employed...

Russian Reporter Blames George H.W. Bush and the Persian Gulf War for Fomenting ‘Chaos’...

By Polygraph Dmitry Smirnov Kremlin Special Correspondent for Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper “At the age of 94, George Bush Sr. died - the man who started the Gulf...

Putin falsely claims seized Ukrainian ships gifted by U.S.A.

By Polygraph Vladimir Putin President, Russian Federation “Two little cutters that the United States gifted Ukraine didn’t pass through the Kerch Straight, and you want a nuclear...

Russian state news chief raps on air, claims Russian rap is home grown

By Polygraph Dmitry Kiselyov Dmitry Kiselyov, CEO of Rossiya Segodnya and TV host “It’s believed that rap as a culture came from Black America. We got it...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: Does Putin underestimate the West?

Topics of the Week Head of MI6: Putin should not underestimate British determination and capabilities. Czech counter-intelligence agency published a detailed Annual Report describing Russian and Chinese activities in...

Disinformation against Sweden Democrats and the Swedish Election

By Martin Kragh Plenty has already been written on the anticipations of outside (read: Russian) interference in the 2018 Swedish parliamentary election. There were no...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: The EU has to start taking pro-Kremlin disinformation seriously

START TAKING PRO-KREMLIN DISINFORMATION SERIOUSLY Open Letter by European Security Experts to the President of the European Commission J. C. Juncker and the High Representative...

Wave of disinformation from the Azov Sea

By EU vs Disinfo The main wave of disinformation narratives this week is unsurprisingly connected to the attack on Ukrainian ships near the Azov Sea. But let’s...

Dictionary.com chooses ‘Misinformation’ as word of the year

By VoANews Misinformation, as opposed to disinformation, was chosen Monday as Dictionary.com's word of the year on the tattered coattails of "toxic," picked earlier this month...

Figure of the Week: 1

Источник: EU vs Disinfo The French parliament has adopted a bill aiming to crack down on the “manipulation of information” during election periods. The draft law, initiated by President...