Thursday, May 2, 2024

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.

Ketchum calls it quits on Russia work

Ketchum has ended the bulk of its work for the Russian Federation in the US and Europe amid continuing tensions between the country and...

Inside Putin’s on-air machine

The global news network RT is the Russian government's main weapon in an intensifying information war with the West—and its top editor has a...

London publishes photos of Russian Pantsir-S1 systems in Ukraine

The UK Foreign Office has published photos of the latest Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense systems, which have been sighted in Ukraine, BBC Ukraine reported. The...

Why Putin Says ‘Glory to Ukraine’ – and Other Russian Anecdotes

Few nations in the world are more given to and gifted in the use of anecdotes about many things including their leaders, than the...

Clone Twitter Accounts Target RFE/RL

Imitation, they say, is the sincerest form of flattery. But it can also be an insidious form of disinformation. On February 9, a clone account...

Fake Photos? Ukrainian Deputy Rejects U.S. Senator’s Claims Of Misinformation

Ukrainian deputy is denying claims that he provided U.S. Senate staff with photos of Russian convoys from 2008 and portrayed them as part of...

The Ukraine Plan

Following is a rough but semantically correct translation of the full text of the “Ukraine Strategy Document”, dated somewhere after February 4th 2014 and...

Why did Facebook block a Russian Propaganda Watchdog?

The near closure of an important Polish initiative countering pro-Russian propaganda this week should serve as a salutary lesson, not least for Facebook, whose...

Russia is now monitoring the world’s mass media for bias

The Russian Institute for Strategic Studies introduced its first-ever World Mass Media Hostility Index, which measures potential anti-Russian bias in the media publications of...

RT on Nemtsov murder: It could be a big plot to destabilize Russia, Putin’s...

RT’s headlines about the shooting death of opposition figure Boris Nemtsov portray Russian investigators at work pursuing a broad range of theories about who...