Sunday, May 5, 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.

What Putin says about rights and freedoms in Russia vs. the facts

By Polygraph Vladimir Putin President of the Russian Federation “Our mass media is free. People are free to speak out and make a name for themselves as...

Russian journalist forced to resign for criticizing pro-Putin propaganda on Instagram

By Global Voices On May 24, 2018, reporter Alexandra Terikova was forced to resign for posting an Instagram video of kindergarten students singing a song for Russian...

Austrian TV confronts Putin with the issue of disinformation

By EU vs Disinfo Ahead of Vladimir Putin’s visit to Vienna on 5 June – his first trip to the EU after he was re-elected...

Zika rumors got three times more shares than real Zika stories. What can health...

By Laura Hazard Owen, for NiemanLab The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to...

Putin says Russia has not left the G-7 – not true

By Polygraph Vladimir Putin President, Russia “We did not leave it , our colleagues refused to come to Russia due to known reasons at some point. Please,...

Disinfo analysis: Macedonia – to be or not to be… Russia’s satellite

By Polygraph The small Balkan nation of Macedonia is increasingly a destination for the Kremlin’s political strategists, the ideologists of Russian exceptionalism and Moscow’s Orthodox mission in...

#PackOfLies: Inconvenient facts in Babchenko case

When it was announced that the Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko was murdered in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv on Tuesday, it did not take long for...

Atlantic Council launches comprehensive website to track Russian disinformation

By The Atlantic Council June 6, 2018 the Atlantic Council launched DisinfoPortal.org, an interactive online guide to track the Kremlin’s disinformation campaigns abroad. The portal...

Issue brief: How disinformation impacts politics and publics

By National Endowment for Democracy In this Brief: How disinformation is used and consumed Proactive and reactive disinformation strategies in different country contexts The scale...

Russian Citizen Fact Check: ‘Everything…is a Lie’

By Polygraph Svetlana Sokolova Russian regional governor "Strunino is, of course, a small town, 14,000 residents in 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the main city, Alexandrov. And...