Tuesday, July 8, 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.

Jakub Kalensky: If we want to stop the aggression, we have to stop the...

StopFake talked to Jakub Kalensky, head of the anti-disinformation group of the Ukrainian Election Task Force, a co-founder of the East StratCom Task Force,...

A Russian top politician reaches for the Moon

By EU vs Disinfo The Moon has fascinated people since the beginning of time. Poets, painters, soothsayers, healers and scientists have all used the Moon...

Crimea: Game not over

By EU vs Disinfo “Krym – nash! Crimea is ours!”  This was the slogan Russian authorities used for celebrating the annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula –...

The leprous distilment of disinformation

By EU vs Disinfo Sleeping within my orchard My custom always of the afternoon, Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole, With juice of cursed hebenon in a...

Disinfo analysis: Moscow’s Balkan defeat

By Polygraph Polygraph.info has used North Macedonia as the shorter version of the new official name of the Republic of North Macedonia. Since the new...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: The new British report summarizing the British inquiry into disinformation includes...

Topics of the Week The UK Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee published its final report on disinformation with multiple recommendations, including the necessity of social...

Jakub Janda: StopFake set up the agenda of Russian disinformation as a major threat

  StopFake talked to Jakub Janda,  Head of the Kremlin Watch Program and Director at the European Values Think-Tank, about the current trends of Russian...

Propaganda and disempowerment

By EU vs Disinfo Mass media are grouped along two major concepts: Media as a Forum or media as a Tribune. This is, of course, a theoretical model to describe...

Russian state media decries Ukraine for renaming its own cities

By Polygraph RIA Novosti Russian state-owned media outlet “‘Not Odessa, but Kotsyubeyev!’ Why does Kyiv erase the real names of cities” Source: RIA Novosti website FALSE Ukraine is a sovereign...

“Party of war” or “pro-peace?”

By Poman Shutov, for Ukrainian Election Task Force To discredit some of the candidates running in the upcoming Ukrainian presidential election, Kremlin propaganda outlets accuse...