Wednesday, July 9, 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.

Statement on the Code of Practice against disinformation: European Commission asks online platforms to...

By European Commission The European Commission published reports by Facebook, Google and Twitter covering the progress made in January 2019 on their commitments to fight...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: Are Russian media victims of the West?

Topics of the Week The European Commission frustrated at Facebook for not sharing enough data. U.S. Cyber Command Disrupted Internet Access of Russian Troll Factory for a...

Battleground Wikipedia

By Anna Ūdre, for CEPA For a few hours on 24 January the English-language Wikipedia page of the newly-elected Latvian Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš was incorrect on a key...

One year into Salisbury: Drowning an assassination in sarcasm

By EU vs Disinfo On 4 March 2018, ex-spy Sergey Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury, UK. Already shortly...

Russian values in bad Russian

By EU vs Disinfo The web-TV-channel Tsargrad.tv is an ambitious project, aiming at a spiritual rebirth of Russia. The founder of the project, Konstantin Malofeev,...

No, Elon Musk is not a Russian spy

By Polygraph NTV - Russian television channel Elon is ours! Musk, who suddenly spoke Russian, is now under suspicion: who is he – the Kremlin’s agent,...

And the Oscar for fact-editing goes to…

By EU vs Disinfo Russian filmmakers were not successful at this year’s Oscar award ceremony. It might have been different if pro-Kremlin outlets were part...

Scaring Ukrainian voters: repression, violence, and contact killings

By Ukrainian Election Task Force Ramping up efforts to sow distrust in Ukraine’s government, former President Viktor Yanukovych claims that Ukraine’s government has attempted to...

Russian TV host announces targets in the U.S. – some are civilian

By Polygraph Dmitriy Kiselyov CEO of Rossiya Segodnya, TV host of “Vesti Nedeli” on Rossiya 24 TV “It is fundamental that our retaliation in case of a...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: Twitter plans to help with political adds transparency prior to the...

Topics of the Week Twitter announced it will allow European users access to sponsorship information for political ads prior to the elections to the European Parliament. Russian hackers are...