Sunday, July 6, 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.

It’s time to fact-check all the news

Political reporters are showing that fact-checking isn’t just for fact-checkers, Bill Adair wrote for Poynter. After Donald Trump declared repeatedly last week that President Obama...

How Russian Propaganda Portrays European Leaders

Russia’s efforts to spread disinformation in other countries as part of a hybrid war against the West sometimes make us forget that the media...

Milosevic ‘Exonerated’? War-Crime Deniers Feed Receptive Audience

Strange mid-summer news: A U.K.-based pundit, in an op-ed piece in RT, sensationally claims that the late Slobodan Milosevic has been "exonerated" by the...

Russian and Ukrainian versions of the Crimea “sabotage plot”

The fallout from Russia’s accusations of Ukraine planning a sabotage mission in occupied Crimea that the Kremlin’s security forces had allegedly foiled is far...

DIICOT head: Sky News feature report on arms trafficking in Romania was staged

The Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) prosecutors are conducting searches in seven locations in Targu Mures and Bistrita Nasaud in the...

Research Report: Analysis of Manipulation Techniques on Selected Czech Websites

By Miloš Gregor ([email protected]), Petra Vejvodová ([email protected]) Abstract: The aim of the analysis was to establish whether, and if so to what extent, manipulative propaganda techniques are...

From Russia With Love

Love FM’s “News from Russia” just announced that it would stop publishing the “news” due to what it said was “pressure” (read: transparency) and “lack...

It looks like Russia hired internet trolls to pose as pro-Trump Americans

  Russia's troll factories were, at one point, likely being paid by the Kremlin to spread pro-Trump propaganda on social media. That is what freelance journalist...

Kremlin Watch Monitor. June 25, 2016

Weekly update on Kremlin disinformation efforts in Europe Junior analyst Vlaďka Vojtíšková from the European Values think-tank co-authored a research paper published by the...

Peter Pomerantsev: Why We’re Post-Fact

As his army blatantly annexed Crimea, Vladimir Putin went on TV and, with a smirk, told the world there were no Russian soldiers in...