Wednesday, July 9, 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.

Russian Information Warfare – What to Expect Next

By InformNapalm February 22nd 2022 was the end of the “invisible” war between Ukraine and Russia. I call it “invisible”, because most of the political...

Russian territory was shelled from the Russia-occupied territory. OSINT Evidence

By InformNapalm Russia keeps actively fabricating and promoting fake news reports, organizing false-flag provocations to justify the Kremlin’s decision to openly invade Ukraine with military...

China Toes Russian Propaganda Line on Ukraine Threat and Economy

By William Echols, for Polygraph “For days, the U.S. has been playing up the threat of war and creating an air of tension. This has...

The Kremlin’s Playbook: Fabricating Pretext To Invade Ukraine – More Myths

By EU vs Disinfo Recently, we examined and debunked seven of the most prevalent and dangerous myths related to Ukraine. Amid the continuous military escalation at Ukraine’s borders,...

Minsk Coercion: Pro-Russian Social Media Accounts Pressure Ukraine to Implement the Minsk Protocols

By Vitalii Rybak, for UkraineWorld The latest Kremlin’s disinformation campaign on Facebook, Telegram and Twitter portray Ukraine as an aggressor state. On February 7, during his...

More Than 1,000 Prisoners In Belarus Are Not Enough For Regime Media

By EU vs Disinfo Earlier, we examined how repression in Belarus has taken almost absurd turns. As of 1 February 2022, Belarusian penal facilities held 1,022 political...

Pro-Kremlin Media Stoke Tensions Around Ukraine

By EU vs Disinfo As the diplomatic efforts to stop aggressive escalation along the Ukrainian borders continue, the pro-Kremlin media keeps stoking the tensions with...

Colour Revolutions Everywhere Vol.2: How Pro-Kremlin Media Covered Protests In Kazakhstan And Belarus

By EU vs Disinfo Most pro-Kremlin media outlets reused known disinformation narratives about the unrest in early January that broke out in Kazakhstan. These narratives...

Rules of engagement for handling disinformation — 2022 edition

By European Statistical System Task Force on Strategic Communication The rise of social media and changing information consumption habits have together created an environment that...

It Can Happen In The EU, Too: Public Smear Campaign And Hacker Attacks Against...

By EU vs Disinfo Faktograf.hr, a fact-checking portal based in Croatia, became the target of a smear campaign followed by a series of hacking attacks...