Tuesday, April 23, 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.

StopFake supports East StratCom Task Force initiative “EU vs Disinfo”

March, 2018 StopFake wholeheartedly supports the “EU vs Disinfo” initiative as our biggest partner that has been on the forefront of combating disinformation for the...

Putin has two reasons for playing ‘the Jewish card,’ Yakovenko says

By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia In the film World Order 2018 and indeed in all his propaganda over the last 18 years, Vladimir Putin...

RT’s Top Editor Toasts Putin: ‘He Used To Be Our President; Now He Is...

By RFE/RL There was plenty of Champagne and wine flowing in Moscow in the hours after Russia’s polls closed on March 18, as supporters of...

Revisiting Soviet monuments

By Urve Eslas, for CEPA Russian President Vladimir Putin has been trolling Estonia. Since CEPA’s last brief on the future of the Soviet war memorial...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: US and UK strengthen their positions, the EU and the Dutch...

Topics of the Week The European Commission’s high-level group of experts have issued a report on disinformation. It has little significance in practice and completely...

Russian media cite fake election observers

By Polygraph Thierry Mariani French politician “I have worked as an observer of elections for about 20 years and can say that in Russia I see improvements...

Final report of the High level expert group on fake news and online disinformation

By European Commission In January 2018, the European Commission set up a high-level group of experts ("the HLEG") to advise on policy initiatives to counter...

Figure of the Week: 50 million

By EU vs Disinfo The data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica took private information from more than 50 million U.S. Facebook users without their permission to...

Skripal Poisoning: If Not Russia, Then…:The many theories of who used a Russian nerve...

By DFRLab Ever since the British media began suggesting that Russia was behind the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal with a rare nerve agent...

#ElectionWatch: Voter Fraud In Russia

By DFRLab On March 18, Russia held presidential elections, widely expected to re-elect Vladimir Putin to a fourth presidential term by a wide margin. With Putin’s...