Monday, July 7, 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.

Russian Defense Ministry evades accusations of ‘unsafe’ flyby

By Polygraph Russian Ministry of Defense "On November 5, 2018, at about 10am on-duty airspace control aircraft spotted an unidentified air threat over the neutral waters...

Disinformation and the Dirty Work

By EU vs Disinfo What is worse? To spread lies or to prevent others from telling the truth? The organisation controlled by the Russian businessman...

McFaul post election tweet triggers RT attack in ‘US News’ feed

By Polygraph RT “Another familiar voice declaring a triumph over the Russian president in the midterms is William Browder, a US-born British investor shark, who reimagined...

“Funeral teams for NATO soldiers” – a week of disinformation scare-mongering, exaggeration and mockery

By EU vs Disinfo When NATO’s large Trident Juncture 2018 exercise concluded this week, pro-Kremlin disinformation was unsurprisingly swift to react. Two weeks ago we highlighted three different...

Russia’s Foreign Minister: US election and politics ‘directly affect’ bilateral relations – avoiding the...

By Polygraph Sergey Lavrov Foreign Minister, Russia “I will not guess how the results of these elections will affect the future of our relations… We firmly know...

#PutinAtWar: Disinformation targets Trident Juncture

By Donara Barojan, for DFRLAb NATO’s largest exercise becomes the target of Kremlin’s 4Ds of disinformation A regular military exercise conducted by NATO this month has...

RIA, writing and geography

By EU vs Disinfo Russian state propaganda media would benefit from updating their skills in political geography. This became apparent last week when two leading...

Russian Embassy distorts story about anti-vaccine disinformation

By Polygraph Russian UK Embassy Twitter account Official social media account “In a strange twist of logic the author tells us Russia is against vaccination, which is...

Russia predicts next Presidential election could cause a Second American Civil War

By Polygraph RIA Novosti Russian state-owned news outlet “American and British academics admit that an intrastate confrontation may begin soon in the United States.” Source: RIA Novosti MISLEADING The article...

Netizen Report: How WhatsApp (and $3 million) helped carry Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro to victory

By Netizen Report Team, for Global Voices The Advox Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights around the...