Wednesday, February 12, 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.

Lithuania bans Russian language channel for “inciting discord”

This article is part of Index's media freedom mapping project that monitors censorship in the European Union Lithuania has banned a Russian TV channel for...

Czech Echoes of the Kremlin’s Information War

2014 marked the end of the post-Cold War era as we knew it and revived the significance of geopolitics. The turmoil in Ukraine has...

Russian Propaganda Exploits Western Weakness

It is becoming clear that certain authoritarian models of government are capable of matching and, in some respects, even exceeding the accomplishments of their democratic counterparts. Whether Russia, with...

Social Network Analysis Reveals Full Scale of Kremlin’s Twitter Bot Campaign

With the aid of open-source tools, Internet researcher Lawrence Alexander gathered and visualised data on nearly 20,500 pro-Kremlin Twitter accounts, revealing the massive scale...

Analytical Report on the Study «Counteraction to Russian Propaganda in the Conflict Region»

From February 26 to February 28, 2015, Kyiv International Institute of Sociology was conducting a survey «Counteraction to Russian Propaganda in the Conflict Region»...

Czech Echoes of the Kremlin’s Information War

2014 marked the end of the post-Cold War era as we knew it and revived the significance of geopolitics. The turmoil in Ukraine has...

Sofi Oksanen in Toronto: how history is falsified – deportations in the politics of...

Sofi Oksanen’s speech at the Toronto Conference on Repressions and Human Rights: Commemorating the 1949 Baltic Deportations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=176&v=6ZOWfto8Ykk From an early age I wanted to become...

Index of Russian propaganda efficiency

Between February 14 and February 24, 2015 Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) conducted the nation-wide public opinion poll. The survey was conducted in...

U.S. losing “information war” to Russia, other rivals – study

(Reuters) - The United States is losing an information war to Russia, Islamic State and other rivals, says a new report that calls for...

How Russia Today is using YouTube

  When Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim founded YouTube in an office over a California pizza shop in 2005, they described it as...