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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 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...

Kremlin Watch Monitor. July 19, 2016

Weekly update on Kremlin disinformation efforts in Europe From 8th to 9th July, the NATO summit took place in Warsaw. NATO and the EU...
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Information war monitor for Central Europe: June 2016 Part 2

GLOBSEC Policy Institute’s bi-weekly overview of conventional and social media discourse in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia monitors propaganda and disinformation attempts, as...

Russia without BS: Updating the list

If you’ve been following Russia closely since about 2012, you know that in spite of the fact that Russia is a rising superpower at...

The most comprehensive guide ever to MH17 conspiracies

The report of the Dutch Safety Board investigation on the causes of the MH17 crash was released on 13 October 2015. It concludes that...

MH17 – The Open Source Investigation, Two Years Later

  Today Bellingcat releases its latest report, “MH17 – The Open Source Investigation, Two Years Later”, bringing together two years of research by Bellingcat into...

Commission: Russian propaganda has deeply penetrated EU countries

A European Commission official has said that Russian propaganda was now powerful in all EU member states – but in some of them Moscow barely...

New Generation of Digital Detectives Fight to Keep Russia Honest

Almost two years ago on July 17, 2014, a Buk missile downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine, killing 298 passengers and their...