Tuesday, March 19, 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.

Kremlin Watch Briefing: Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony

Topics of the Week How do Estonian intelligence service assess the threat the Kremlin poses to Estonian national security? Read about Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony. New US sanctions are hitting...

The Douma Chemical Attack – Fake News about Fake News on Russia’s Fake News

By Eliot Higgins, for Bellingcat With any war crime in Syria receiving significant media coverage, there has been a concerted effort by pro-Kremlin and pro-Assad...

Sergey Lavrov’s Fake: The Skripals Were Poisoned by BZ Toxin Used by NATO

Source: Iva Tsoy, for The Insider Speaking at the assembly of the Council of Foreign and Defense Policy on April 14, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: National parliaments should use their investigative competences

Kremlin Watch Briefing Topics of the Week The US has imposed a new set of sanctions against seven Russian oligarchs and 12 companies under their control,...

Disinfo News: Why Does Sputnik Ignore Top Russian News?

By Polygraph The latest round of the U.S. sanctions imposed last week deliver a hard blow to Russian economy, making it top news around the...

#PutinAtWar: Far Right Converges on “False Flag” in Syria

By Ben Nimmo, for DFRLab Pro-Kremlin, pro-Assad, and far right online communities align to claim chemical weapons attack was a “false flag” Within hours of the...

Tracking Russian online interference teaches valuable lessons on improving news quality

By Ivan Sigal. for Global Voices With the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) indictment of 13 Russians for interfering in 2016 United States (U.S.) presidential elections, Global Voices...

At UN, indignant Russia protests culpability in Skripal poisoning, calls accusations fake news, absurd...

By Paula Chertok After a month of denials, distortions and counter-accusations, Russia gathered the international community at the UN Security Council and again dismissed as fabricated...

Ukraine Reform Monitor: March 2018

By Balazs Jarabik, Thomas De Waal, for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace This is the eighth Ukraine Reform Monitor published by the Carnegie Endowment for...

Observers Disagree with Putin that 2018 Election Was the ‘Most Transparent and Clean’ Vote...

By Polygraph Vladimir Putin President, Russia “As many already said, certainly, this was the most transparent and clean election in the history of our country.” Source: Kremlin.ru, April...