Friday, July 11, 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.

Storytelling And Disinformation – An EUvsDisinfo Classic

By EUvsDisinfo Once upon a Time, in a kingdom far, far away, a dragon was keeping the entire population hostage, poisoning it with its toxic...

Kremlin Not Getting The Joke

By EU vs Disinfo Honest Mistakes or Deliberate Disinformation? Satire and humour have an obvious place in democratic discourse. The Russian satirical website Panorama has since...

Anglo-Saxons Provoke The Waves: Pro-Kremlin Media Vent About HMS Defender And EU Decisions

By EU vs Disinfo This has been a busy time for the Kremlin’s spin-doctors. Russian state-controlled TV channels continued to vent and spin disinformation messages...

Disinformation Fuels Hate On Belarusian TV

By EU vs Disinfo “Rats”, “degenerates”, “human abominations” – these are just a few ways in which Belarusian state-controlled TV describes opposition activists. As the...

Disinformation On The UN Charter As A Tool Of Russian Imperialism

By EU vs Disinfo Disinformation related to the UN Charter, signed on 26 June 1945, appears frequently in pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets. Most of the over 140...

A Chronicle Of Kremlin Contradictions

By EU vs Disinfo Supporting Vaccine Hesitancy Abroad While Demanding Mandatory Vaccination at Home Pro-Kremlin outlets continue to support foreign vaccine hesitancy. Russia based English-language outlets...

Potemkin Prophecies

By EU vs Disinfo Hoaxes as a Kremlin Tactic The pro-Kremlin media spend much of their time detecting Western “provocations” before they even take place. But...

When Arguments Become Heated

By EU vs Disinfo Last week the pro-Kremlin media targeted mostly Ukraine, US, NATO, and the West. After the Brussels summit ended earlier last week, NATO issued...

A (New) Sputnik Has Been (Re)Born

By EU vs Disinfo After closing its business on 31 December 2019, Sputnik is back in Estonia. But this time, it’s different. First, a quick recap....

Covid, Cows and Politics: How a Vaccine Falsehood Spread in India

By William Echols, for Polygraph Gaurav PandhiA Congress party leader“he Modi Govt has admitted that COVAXIN consists Newborn Calf Serum. This is heinous! This information...