Saturday, April 20, 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.

The 5×5—Forewarned is forearmed: Cybersecurity policy in 2024

By Nitansha Bansal, Trey Herr, for DFRLab Members of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative team discuss the regulatory requirements and emerging technology they are closely following in...

Time To Take A Step Forward From Analysis To A Collective Response

By EUvsDisinfo The latest EEAS report on FIMI threats reveals how foreign powers are systematically undermining democracies. This is not just an attack on facts,...

All roads lead to Poland

By EUvsDisinfo Poland, one of the staunchest supporters of Ukraine, has long been among the favourite targets of pro-Kremlin disinformers and past weeks have been...

The Kremlin’s upside-down world in 2024

By EUvsDisinfo The year 2024 will be busy. Continuing from our disinfo review of last week, we present a short New Year’s overview of the main...

Groundhog Day of Evil

By EUvsDisinfo In Putin’s Russia, the calendar turns, but the story remains unchanged. A cycle of deception, oppression, moral decay, and futile military adventurism with...

Bad Santa comes with deceitful gifts

By EU vs Disinfo The Kremlin’s master Putin is the bad Santa of disinformation. Every year, he returns to give a huge baskets of gifts...

Everybody else to blame

By EU vs Disinfo Amid all the ongoing wars and crises in the world, last Thursday, 14 December 2023 will go down as a good...

The Next in Line

By EU vs Disinfo The Kremlin liar-in-chief announces his regime will continue and his stooges find US biolabs wherever they look. At a staged event, Putin mumbled out...

The Belarus KGB’s ill-conceived creativity

By EU vs Disinfo Surprising speaker from the KGB On 18 November 2023, a seminar titled, ‘Secure Belarus: the forms and methods of public safety’, gathered...

Wartime Tarot Readings in Russia

By Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security Information and psychological operations have been actively used by the Russians since the very beginning of the...