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.

Kremlin Watch Briefing: How is the Chinese Communist Party manipulating the global pandemic?

Topics of the Week Putin's Chef threatens to the U.S. with a lawsuit while the U.S. senators urge the EU to put him on...

Coronavirus in Russia: Independent journalists call the bluff

By EU vs Disinfo For good reasons, independent Russian journalists are in a better position than many others to see through the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaigns. What...

Are universities punishing students ‘over common cold’?

By Polygraph Dominic Gregoriosenior, University of Pennsylvania“I wish the economy and the academy were not so easily incapacitated by the common cold. I wish...

Russian senator falsely claims poles closed airspace to virus aid

By Polygraph Alexey PushkovChairman of the commission on information policy of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of Russia’s parliament"Poland did not let Russian aircraft...

The community of collapse

By EU vs Disinfo The Kremlin, the conspiracy theorists and the coronavirus In an article last year, EUvsDisinfo described the dialogue of disinformation. Disinformation outlets need...

Sputnik: Coronavirus could be designed to kill elderly Italians

By EU vs Disinfo In a time that calls for international cooperation to fight a common threat, Kremlin mouthpiece Sputnik chooses to spread disinformation about COVID-19.  A Sputnik article published...

Disinformation can kill

By EU vs Disinfo There is only one priority now: all national, European, and international resources are focused on containing the COVID-19 outbreak. The virus...

Combating ‘fake news’ in the time of COVID-19 in Myanmar

Source: Global Voices This edited article by Nan Lwin is from The Irrawaddy, an independent news website in Myanmar, and is republished on...

The great phony: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fake quarantine letter

By Polygraph All across the Internet“Read the classics. This is a quarantine letter by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was isolated in south of France...

Figure of the week: 76 million

By EU vs Disinfo Advertisements for some of the best-known global brands are funding some of the most notorious disinformation sites in Europe – to...