Saturday, May 18, 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.

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...

Russian troops keep dying in Syria six months after Putin announced their withdrawal

By Polygraph Russian Defense Ministry, via Sputnik "Four Russian servicemen have been killed in Syria as a result of shelling by militants, the Russian Defense Ministry...

Can crowdsourcing scale fact-checking up, up, up? Probably not, and here’s why

By Mevan Babakar, for NiemanLab There’s no end to the need for fact-checking, but fact-checking teams are usually small and struggle to keep up with the...

What do Russian nationalists, Alex Jones and Roseanne have in common?

By Polygraph Ya Russkiy Website “This is George Soros. Remember this next time the Soros-funded liberals call you a racist, fascist or Nazi.” Source: Ya-Russ.ru, April 22,...

How many non-existent apples go into two apples?

By EU vs Disinfo Distracting the audience is one of the goals of the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign. One of the techniques how to do this...