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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.

Russian Censors Target Public Wi-Fi Spots in Crusade Against Blocked Websites

Russian censors have begun policing public wireless Internet in cafes, shopping malls and public libraries, in what they say is an effort to ensure...

Center for Monitoring Propaganda and Disinformation Online Set to Open in Russia

In December 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the Internet Economy Forum, where he suggested Russian federal security service and other state...

Getting The News From Chechnya – The Crackdown On Free Press You May Have...

When a minivan with eight Russian and European journalists and human rights activists was attacked on March 9 by a band of professional thugs...

The new propaganda wars

Even though the Berlin Wall was destroyed more than a quarter-century ago and the city rebuilt, new propaganda wars are being waged here and...

Russian Media Outlets Falsely Accuse Belarusian Brothers of Brussels Attack

On March 14, eight days before the terrorist attacks in Brussels, the Russian media outlet Lifenews reported (archive) that two Belarusian brothers, Ivan and Aleksey Dovbash,...

Yahoo Reports First Content Removal Requests from the Russian Government

Yahoo, the American multinational Internet and technology company, has released its latest transparency report, listing the numbers of government requests for user data or...

Russia’s information warfare – airbrushing reality

Authors:  Ben Nimmo is a senior fellow at the Institute for Statecraft in London specialising in Russian information warfare and influence. He formerly worked as...

Major Cyber Attacks on ‘False Propaganda’ Swedish Media

A series of coordinated cyber attacks knocked Sweden’s main newspapers offline for several hours over the weekend, with early reports suggesting the attacks originated...

The Baltic Elves Taking on Pro-Russian Trolls

What at first looked like as a social media grudge match could be a precursor to invasion, war and resistance in the Baltics, Michail...

The Norwegian TV series that’s enraged the Kremlin

Okkupert (“Occupied”), the most expensive Norwegian television show in history, never mentions the word “quisling.” And yet its premise — a Russian occupation of...