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.

Kremlin Watch Briefing: Russian influence operations in Africa and South America under spotlight

Topics of the Week Wagner mercenaries received passports from the same office as the GRU cover agents. Facebook and Twitter removed thousands of Russian, Iranian and Venezuelan accounts. Great...

Rachel Maddow’s U.S. cold weather concern over Russia and China was not baseless

By Polygraph WikiLeaks “U.S. largest audience TV host, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow (Democratic party aligned) this evening: Russia will freeze you and your family to death.” Source: RIA...
Le teorie cospirazionistiche

Why authoritarians love the concept of the Big Conspiracy

By EU vs Disinfo The idea of a Shadow World Government has always been very popular among conspiracy theorists. Its manifestations might be different, but...

Ivan the Terrible and information technology

By Ukraine Election Task Force Whenever voters participate in national elections, as Ukrainians will do on March 31, 2019, they often have an eye on...

How to Get a 146% Election Result

By EU vs Disinfo A new whistleblower has now emerged from inside a Russian state media organisation. This time it is Leonid Krivenkov, a former camera...

In reporters visit to Butina’s home, Russia continues to deny her ties to state

By Polygraph Alexander Ionov Vice chairman, Security Committee, State Duma “Maria Butina is a human rights activist, for me Maria Butina is a public figure, a student...

‘Putin’s chef’ denies existence of mercenary group Wagner

By Polygraph Yevgeny Prigozhin Russian businessman “At the Defense Ministry, which I have no connection with, I cannot negotiate the financing/supply of a private military contractor that...

Russia Today chief says case against Scottish politician is politically motivated

By Polygraph Margarita Simonyan Margarita Simonyan, Editor-in-chief of RT “From the outset, Salmond insisted that the process was political and the charges were investigated with violations. The...

Russia demonstrates missile claiming no violation of INF – only to prove opposite

By Polygraph Mikhail Matveyevsky Commander of the Missile Forces and Artillery, Russian Defense Ministry “All launches of ground-to-ground missiles were conducted at a range not exceeding the...

Manipulation And Disinformation In Social Media: The Case Of Estonia And #ESTexitEU

By EU vs Disinfo On 12th of December last year, a man protesting against the UN Global compact for migration was attacked. A few days...