Tuesday, July 8, 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.

The Ghosts Of The Kremlin’s Past

By EU vs Disinfo On 3 October, Germany celebrated the 30th anniversary of reunification – a defining moment in the history of Europe. And while the...

More Proof: Disinformation Works!

By EU vs Disinfo Disinformation works, and pro-Kremlin disinformation is often able to influence people’s opinions. This is the conclusion drawn from a recent research on “online...

Coronavirus And Conspiracies: How The Far Right Is Exploiting The Pandemic

By Blyth Crawford, for The Conversation Just as the global death toll from COVID-19 reached 250,000 at the start of May this year, a short...

Developer of Russia’s Sputnik V Falsely Claims that ‘the West’ is Foot-Dragging on a...

By Polygraph Kirill DmitrievCEO of Russian Direct Investments Fund“…Western vaccine manufacturers rely on experimental technologies, little-studied and untested over the long term, facing obstacles during...

Faked videos shore up false beliefs about Biden’s mental health

By Dustin Carnahan, for The Conversation From Ronald Reagan in 1984 to Bob Dole in 1996 and even Hillary Clinton in 2016, candidate health has become a common theme across...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: How vulnerable are the Western Balkans countries towards foreign authoritarian influence?

Foreign Authoritarian Influence in the Western Balkans Political Capital Institute, in cooperation with the European Values Center for Security Policy, Institute for Democracy "Societas Civilis"...

As New Uighur Detention Facilities Emerge, China’s Denials and Disinfo Persist

By Mariana Castro, for Polygraph Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs“The religious freedom and other rights of people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, including the...

Filmmaker Falsifies Fake Forgery

By EU vs Disinfo It’s fake, fake, fake! Filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov did not leave his audience in any doubt when demonstrating that the vast crowds of...

Ryszard Siwiec – the greatest sacrifice in the name of freedom

On 8th September 1968 during the national harvest festival on the 10th-Anniversary Stadium in Warsaw in the presence of communist dignitaries of the Polish...

Fabricating A Fabrication

By EU vs Disinfo When pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets can’t find dirt on its targets, they fabricate it. The phenomenon has been documented earlier: In 2012,...