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.

Reporting the Topic by Avoiding the Topic

By EU vs Disinfo That press freedom is limited in Russia comes as no surprise. The situation is described as ‘difficult’ by Reporters without Borders...

Russian Journalists Murdered in Africa — What Russia Does Not Say

By Polygraph Maria Zakharova Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson “There is nothing sensational about the presence of Russian instructors in the CAR, no one was hiding anything. Back...

NATO isn’t planning to break up Russia

By Polygraph RT Russian state-owned media outlet “The head of the Russian Lower House Committee for Eurasian Integration says the recent proposal to split Russia into several...

#PackOfLies: Back to the Stalinist past

On the 30th of June, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed a decree by which he renamed a few military units and divisions...

Figure of the Week: 25

By EU vs Disinfo Over the last couple of years, online disinformation has risen on the international scene as an ever-growing problem. At the forefront of the battle for...

UK Parliament: 5 recommendations to tackle disinformation and fake news

By UK Parliament Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee We are facing a democratic crisis founded on manipulation of personal data and micro-targeting, MPs warn. In...

Figure of the Week: $400 Million

By EU vs Disinfo Last week, a series of articles was published in the U.S. media relating to a $400-million donation allegedly made by U.S.-born...

The Russian Military: ‘friendly and open’ or aggressive and dangerous – the evidence

By Polygraph Sergey Shoigu Russian Defense Minister “In such conditions, we demonstrate openness, friendliness and the absence of any sort of aggression against foreign countries.” Source: RT, July...

The Trump-Putin summit was a win for Russia. Why aren’t they celebrating?

By Sarah Manney, July 25, 2018 After last weekend’s summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, widely held in the West as a...

Russia tries everything to blacken reputation of White Helmets

By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake Russia escalated its long-running hate campaign against the White Helmets Syrian rescue group in response to the evacuation over...