Monday, July 7, 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.

NATO’s approach to countering disinformation: a focus on COVID-19

By NATO Introduction COVID-19 has affected almost every person in every NATO state. It is vital that this global health crisis does not turn into a...

Bestiarium Kremlinensis A – B

By EU vs Disinfo Warning: Satire Fear is the main element in the pro-Kremlin disinformation ecosystem. The EUvsDisinfo has earlier outlined a few of the phobias, plaguing...

Poles about Polish-Russian relations and historical propaganda

As it is stated in the report “Informational war and historical propaganda” by the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding, international relations are a...

Repeated Aggression in South China Sea Belies China’s Denials of ‘Maritime Empire’

By Polygraph Zhao LijianChinese Foreign Ministry spokesman“China has never sought to establish a maritime empire in the South China Sea, and has always treated the...

Storytelling the Disinformation. Part 1

By EU vs Disinfo The Premise Once upon the Time, in a kingdom far, far away, a dragon was keeping the entire people hostage, poisoning it...

Black Is The New Orange

By EU vs Disinfo The Kremlin’s New Take on Colour Revolutions Pro-Kremlin media are continuing to push disinformation around the racial injustice protests in the US...

Toppling Lenin: The lessons of Ukraine’s memory wars

Ukraine Alert by Peter Dickinson, for Atlantic Council The Black Lives Matter movement has led to a wave of monument removals across Europe and North America in...

The Kremlin Goes Orwellian On Orwell

By EU vs Disinfo Newspeak as Editorial Policy Recently, Russian Strategic Culture Foundation published an article, referring to George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. This is not very original;...

One group that’s really benefitted from Covid-19: Anti-vaxxers

By Laura Hazard Owen, for NiemanLab The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to...

Putin, a Rainbow Flag, and Discrimination in Russia

By Polygraph Vladimir PutinRussian President“In Russia, there has not been, is not, and will not be anything that is associated with restrictions on rights based...