Monday, November 10, 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.

Made in Bulgaria: Pro-Russian Propaganda

Bulgarian fake-news agents often promote Moscow’s line not for Russia’s sake, but for their own political interests By Michael Colborne, for Codastory In the tiny town...

The Daily Vertical: Absurdity Can Be Deadly (Transcript)

By Brian Whitmore, The Daily Vertical The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL. So have you heard? NATO is...

How Tech Giants Are Joining Forces to Fight Fake News

By Craig Newmark, Linkedin In high school US history, I learned that a trustworthy press is the immune system of democracy. As a news consumer,...

Investigation – Sex and lies: Russia’s EU news

By Andrew Rettman – Investigation - Sex and lies: Russia's EU news (20.4.2017, EU Observer) Rape, paedophilia, incest, and sodomy - Russian media have targeted France...

Kremlin Watch Monitor. April 19, 2017

Invitation: How Europe sees Putin's Russia On April 24, we will present a new major study in the European Parliament, which evaluates policies of individual...

Small time propagandists

Written by Inga Spriņģe, Re:Baltica Who is polluting the Baltic internet in Russian? U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to end financing for the Baltic states. This...

Revealed: Confessions of a Kremlin Troll

Being paid by the Russian government to troll the internet just isn't what it used to be. By Katie Davies, for The Moscow Times Russia's paid...

The Khan Sheikhoun Chemical Attack — Who Bombed What and When?

By Christiaan Triebert, for Bellingcat Last week, we published a survey of open source evidence concerning the alleged chemical attack at Khan Sheikhoun in Syria’s Idlib...

Meet Russia’s Warrior-Writer and Bloodthirsty Priest

By Nikolay Syrov, for Global Voices In addition to being a prominent contemporary writer in Russia, Zakhar Prilepin is a vocal political ideologue. A member...

After Moving Servers to Russia, LiveJournal Bans ‘Political Solicitation’

Last December, the blogging platform LiveJournal — purchased in 2007 by the Russian company SUP Media — finally relocated its data servers from California...