Tuesday, September 16, 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.

Fake news: an insidious trend that’s fast becoming a global problem

By Kate Connolly, Angelique Chrisafis, Poppy McPherson, Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Benjamin Haas , Dominic Phillips, Elle Hunt and Michael Safi, The Guardian With fake online news...

Kremlin Watch Monitor. December 1, 2016

Weekly update on Kremlin disinformation efforts European Parliament against disinformation The European Parliament approved a motion for a resolution which warns against propaganda pressure from Russia...

Russia is Weaponizing culture in CEE by creating a traditionalist “counter-culture”

By Péter Krekó, Lóránt Győri, Katya Dunajeva - Political Capital Institute, for Integrity Initiative The hybrid warfare that Russia has been waging against Europe and...

Political Satire Returns to Russian TV, Neutered As Ever

Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov, whose regime is widely accused of human rights crimes, is a comedy star on Russian television this week. Or rather,...

MEPs sound alarm on anti-EU propaganda from Russia and Islamist terrorist groups

Propaganda pressure on the EU from Russia and Islamist terrorist groups is growing, MEPs warn in a resolution voted on Wednesday. It seeks to...

Russian Propaganda Edits Out Racist Comment About Obama

By The Moscow Times State-run Rossiya TV channel has deleted a racist comment about U.S. President Barack Obama from the flagship Sunday news show, Vesti Nedeli, The...

Obama: New media has created a world where “everything is true and nothing is...

By Joseph Lichterman, Nieman Lab President-elect Donald Trump tweeted Thursday night that he had convinced Ford to not close a factory in Kentucky. “I worked...

A Call for Cooperation Against Fake News

We  —  John Borthwick and Jeff Jarvis  —  want to offer constructive suggestions for what the platforms  — Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram, Snapchat, WeChat, Apple...

A Revealing Fight with Russia’s RT at the State Department

By Matthew Armstrong, War On The Rocks In a combative exchange with State Department spokesman John Kirby at a press briefing last week, a representative...

Kremlin Watch Monitor. November 21, 2016

Join the search for the next Putinversteher of the Week! New week, new choice to make? Behaviour of which public figure did you find worthy...