Thursday, July 3, 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.

Terrorists or Political Prisoners? Russia Responds to U.S. State Department

By Polygraph Sergei Ilyin Radio Sputnik "Some of the people, supposedly repressed for political reasons, whose release Washington is calling for, have been convicted of grave crimes...

Putin: Olympic Venues in Sochi Are “Very Busy”

By Polygraph Vladimir Putin President of Russia “We managed to address a very difficult challenge that other countries which have hosted the Olympic Games have not been...

Kremlin plans to replace fraud Ilyumzhinov with slick Dvorkovich in chess world

By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake For 23 years the world chess federation, FIDE, has been held captive by one of the most cynical and...

We still need East Stratcom against Kremlin trolls

By Laima Andrikiene, for EUobserver The EU and its member states are facing an organised and aggressive Russian state fake news, manipulation and disinformation campaign. Its objective...

Thief cries, catch the thief!

By EU vs Disinfo When pro-Kremlin commentators attempt to blur the facts about MH17, they insist that any investigation that does not include Russia among...

Russian Foreign ministry spreads fake Margaret Thatcher quote

By Polygraph Russian Foreign Ministry's Official Twitter Account Russian Foreign Ministry “In November 1991, in her speech in Houston, ex-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said that ‘according...

They speak Russian in Crimea, but that doesn’t make it part of Russia

By Peter Dickinson, for Atlantic Counsil US President Donald Trump made headlines ahead of the recent G7 summit in Canada by calling on his colleagues...

In the U.S., the left trusts the mainstream media more than the right, and...

By Antonis Kalogeropoulos and Richard Fletcher, for NiemanLab s Facebook moves to privilege “broadly trusted” sources in its News Feed, our research — more of which...

Internet users fed up with fake news

Source: Reuters Institute / BBC Fewer and fewer people use Facebook as the source of information and the platform to discuss them. The reason is...

Anatomy of a Russian ‘troll factory’ news site

By Aric Toler, for Bellingcat When browsing through stories on the newly-established media outlet USAReally.com, you may think that you are reading a procedural-generated site...