Tuesday, May 7, 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.

Russian Lawmakers Order Probe Of RFE/RL, VOA, And CNN

The lower house of the Russian parliament has ordered a probe into whether RFE/RL’s Russian Service, Voice of America, and CNN are in compliance...

How Russia and WikiLeaks Became Allies Against the West

Some claim WikiLeaks is working for the Kremlin. The reality is hardly so simple By Matthew Kupfer, The Moscow Times The timing couldn’t have been better...

Wikileaks Switched To Russian Web Hosting During Election

By Grant Stern, OccupyDemocrats Former Wikileaks & cyber activist Laurelai Bailey just used open source information to accurately prove that Wikileaks is being transmitted physically from...

U.S. falling short in countering propaganda from other nations, experts tell Congress

By Morgan Chalfant, The Hill Experts told a House panel on Wednesday that the United States has failed to counter information operations from nation states...

Trump’s Russian connections and the “Cold War” inside the USA

Trump supporters are using blackmail tactics in the USA: even if he is really guilty of unlawful ties to the Kremlin, law enforcement bodies...

The Social Media ‘Echo Chamber’ Powering Austria’s Far-Right

Some say Austria dodged a bullet last year. After an acrimonious year-long election campaign the Alpine nation elected Alexander Van der Bellen, a veteran...

The Debunking Business is Booming

By Jim Kovpak, for StopFake Some readers are already aware of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s attempt to break into the fake news debunking business. It...

This site is “taking the edge off rant mode” by making readers pass a...

  By Joseph Lichterman, NiemanLab Two weeks ago, NRKbeta, the tech vertical of the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK, published an explainer about a proposed new digital...

BBC Says Russia’s ‘Troll Factory’ Faked a Video Showing a US Soldier Shooting at...

The video seems to show a man dressed as a US soldier firing three shots into a copy of the Quran. It appeared online...

Lisa 2.0: How pro-Kremlin media in Germany have been using a new fake to...

By Ben Nimmo, DFRLab In early 2016, the subject of Russian disinformation shot up the agenda in Germany with the false story of a 13-year-old...