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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.

Russia 24 attempted to involve British journalist in propaganda scheme

British journalist of The Times and The Sunday Times, Max Tucker received a call from Russian state-owned TV channel Russia 24 with an offer...

Russia spreading fake news and forged docs in Sweden: report

By The Local Sweden’s most respected foreign policy institute has accused Russia of using underhand methods, including fake news, counterfeit documents, and other disinformation, to...

USA Today Parrots Kremlin Propaganda on Crimea

By Halya Coynash, The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group Hopes are high in Russia that its investment in the US elections will pay off in...

Separating Fact and Fiction in the Svitlodarsk Bulge

Verification of claims surrounding the heavy fighting in the Donbas By DFRLab Since December 18, fighting has continued to claim the lives of Ukrainian and separatist...

Kremlin Watch Monitor. December 22, 2016

New Publications Our Jakub Janda argues in the Observer that Angela Merkel is going to be the next target of the Russian disinformation campaign. Here...

Spokeswoman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry Accuses Facebook of Working With ISIS

Maria Zakharova, the colorful spokeswoman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry, accused Facebook administrators of working for the Islamic State, after the network temporarily unpublished one...

Russians Increasingly Skeptical of ‘False’ and ‘Biased’ News

The number of Russians who think media reports are false or biased has doubled in the last 12 months, a report by Russian journalism...

Facebook has a plan to fight fake news. Here’s where we come in

By Benjamin Mullin and Alexios Mantzarlis, Poynter Facebook announced today that it is taking several steps to reduce the reach of fake news. One of...

The real history of fake news

By David Uberti, CJR In an 1807 letter to John Norvell, a young go-getter who had asked how to best run a newspaper, Thomas Jefferson...

Four tricky ways that fake news can fool you

By Daniel Levitin, Ideas.TED.com What looks like (and reads like) the truth may be riddled with lies if you look more closely, says neuroscientist Daniel...