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.

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By EU vs Disinfo The downing of flight MH17 has been one of the most lied-about events in recent years, and the disinformation campaign surrounding the tragedy...

Improving the Western strategy to combat Kremlin propaganda and disinformation

By Anton Barbashin, for Atlantic Counsil Read the Publication (PDF) Since Putin’s annexation of Crimea and military aggression in Donbas—and especially since the 2016 US presidential...

Baltic Brutality?

By EU vs Disinfo A dark image of the Baltic states was (again), painted in pro-Kremlin disinformation this week. Firstly, the Latvian Army was accused of...

Putin and Trump understand propaganda; their liberal opponents don’t, Moscow commentator says

By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia An anonymous commentator on Telegram’s Red Zion channel who was picked up today by Novyye izvestiya says that both Vladimir Putin...

Scottish sheriff slams Russia’s fake justice system

By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake Russian state witnesses used ad hominem attacks and whataboutism - standard tactics by Vladimir Putin’s regime – in a...

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,...