Thursday, May 21, 2026

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.

#FakeHunter Challenge debate: fake news cannot be eliminated but we can learn to live...

Fake news is dangerous, it distorts perception of the surrounding world, produces incorrect social stances, sows anxiety and doubts. The problem intensified extraordinarily during...

Russia’s coronadiplomation, i.e. using the pandemic in the foreign policy

Russia carries out the coronadiplomation, understood as medical and humanitarian aid during the Covid-19 pandemic. According to Agnieszka Legucka, PhD from Polish Institute of International...

The Kremlin And The Philosopher’s Moan

By EU vs Disinfo Bernard-Henri Lévy is a thinker the Kremlin-philosopher Aleksander Dugin loves to hate. Dugin is well known for his critique that the West leans to...

Russian fake news about the coronavirus

Russia has been trying to destabilize Western democracies and the countries of the European Union using purposefully false information about the coronavirus pandemic. As prof....

Assad Regime Groundlessly Claims US and Allies are Lying About Chemical Attacks

By Polygraph Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)Syrian state media outlet“The United States of America and its Western allies have been using their media outlets to...

Who benefits from new laws forbidding publication of “false” and “unreliable” information?

Regulations aimed at fighting disinformation have been introduced for at least few years in many countries around the world. However, the introduction of such...

Is Russia still interested in the US elections?

Presidential elections in the US draw everybody’s attention. It is worth to analyse how does the Russian propaganda and disinformation work this time. As Agnieszka...

Is Russia still interested in the US elections?

Presidential elections in the US draw everybody’s attention. It is worth to analyse how does the Russian propaganda and disinformation work this time. As Agnieszka...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: How Russian state channels interpret the US elections?

Topics of the Week UK politicians sue the government over its reluctance to probe allegations that the Kremlin attempted to interfere with the Scottish and...

The Kremlin’s influence and governance model is falling apart

By InformNapalm Article prepared by InformNapalm Lithuanian editorial office. On 11 October 2020, Lithuanian voters rejected politicians widely perceived as the most sympathetic to Russian malign interests. The outright...