Friday, July 4, 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.

Coronavirus disinformation: Moscow overplays its hand

By EU vs Disinfo Russian authorities face criticism from the side of the EU and the US as a result of disinformation in connection with...

Disinformers take advantage of COVID-19 crisis

By Delfi “Pharmaceutical industry denies the fact that vitamin C kills coronavirus”, “Lithuania has chosen natural selection – only the strongest will survive”, “NATO “helps”...

Kremlin propaganda demonizing NATO efforts

By Ernestas Taranas, for Vilnius Institute for Policy Analysis Recently NATO has experienced a series of hits to its structural integrity and has proved to...

Update: Sputnik falsely says Boris Johnson on lung ventilation

By Polygraph Sputnik NewsRussian state-owned media outlet"Johnson will undergo artificial lung ventilation, a source close to the UK healthcare authorities told Sputnik later. “ Source:...

Bizarre in Belarus: Tractors, farms and other weird coronavirus ‘cures’

By Polygraph Alexander LukashenkaPresident of Belarus“People on tractors are working, nobody is talking about the virus. There the tractors will cure everybody. The field cures...

Misleading Mashup: Russia’s COVID-19 ‘Aid’ to U.S.

By Polygraph Dmitry Peskovthe Kremlin’s Press Secretary“’Against the background of the severe epidemiological situation in America, the Russian side offered assistance in the form of...

Coronavirus: BBC challenges Pro-Kremlin reporting from Italy

By EU vs Disinfo Moscow’s help to Italy in connection with the coronavirus has been covered extensively, both in international and in Russian media. In Russia,...

Throwing coronavirus disinfo at the wall to see what sticks

By EU vs Disinfo The EUvsDisinfo database has been accumulating coronavirus-related disinformation cases for more than two months – it’s time to take a look...

Disinformation, opportunism, and gaslighting: COVID-19 as a vector for Chinese influence in Central Europe

By Louis Cox-Brusseau, for CEPA The outbreak of COVID-19 has starkly exposed most countries’ unpreparedness for combating a global pandemic. Geopolitical weaknesses, too, are laid...

Figure of the week: 203

By EU vs Disinfo Facebook and Instagram have removed a total of 203 accounts linked to Russia’s Internet Research Agency that were operating out of...