Sunday, April 28, 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.

A fierce attack into nowhere

By EU vs Disinfo “Secondary Infektion” – Powerful, Useless and Dangerous Secondary Infektion is a campaign that since 2014 has used fake accounts and forged documents to...

Russia’s dishonesty about delays in Whelan spy case

By Polygraph Russian Foreign Ministry Department of Press and InformationPress service of the Russian Foreign Ministry“As is known, P. (Paul) Whelan himself delayed the familiarization...

USA Really, making Americans yawn since 2018

By EU vs Disinfo The wake-up call that makes you fall asleep In 2018, the Prigozhin Media group decided to wake up the Americans. Evgeniy Prigozhin...

An anti-American bandwagon

By EU vs Disinfo This week, the pro-Kremlin media’s focus on the US shifted from disinformation about the racial injustice protests to fabricated accusations of...

Forget about those sanctions, Kremlin says oligarchs don’t exist in Russia

By Polygraph Dmitry PeskovRussian presidential spokesman"We do not know about any oligarchs, or about their existence."Source: TASS, June 10, 2020FALSE On June 10, Russian presidential spokesman...

“Let’s get the popcorn ready” – Russian TV covers US protests

By EU vs Disinfo The widespread protests in the United States continue to grip the world’s attention, and pro-Kremlin media are no exception. On Russian...

A red, white and blue all-American Maidan

By EU vs Disinfo The Pro-Kremlin Disinformation Network and the Protests in the US In the world of the pro-Kremlin disinformation network, protests are never a...

Chinese white paper praises coronavirus response, but critics say secrecy costs lives

By Polygraph Xinhua NewsState-run news agency“Ma Xiaowei, director of the National Health Commission, said there is ‘no delay or cover-up’ in the Chinese government's response...

Vote or gays will take your children. 2020 edition

By EU vs Disinfo Pro-Kremlin propaganda and homophobia go hand in hand ahead of the vote on constitutional amendments in Russia. Two years ago, EUvsDisinfo wrote about a...

Crisis (non-)management, pro-Kremlin style

By EU vs Disinfo Last week, the Disinformation Review highlighted the cynical opportunism of the pro-Kremlin media in exploiting the racial injustice protests sweeping across...