Thursday, July 3, 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.

Iran’s immunity from the coronavirus? Kiss a holy tomb

By Polygraph Unidentified Iranian man:“In sacred places like this, there is no room for viruses, germs or diseases.”Source: Twitter, March 1, 2020 False The...

Smells like Crimea

By EU vs Disinfo “In the West, voices are heard that we need to review the results of the Second World War. And, in particular,...

Disinformation mash-up: MH17 and coronavirus

By EU vs Disinfo What do the MH17 investigation and coronavirus have in common? According to pro-Kremlin disinformation, both are apparently nothing more than Russophobic...

The impossible conspiracy fuelling Russia’s MH17 defence

By Eliot Higgins, for Bellingcat Ahead of the commencement of the MH17 trials in the Netherlands on March 9, 2020, various Russian government officials...

Occupy the information space!

By EU vs Disinfo Kremlin Tactics to Discredit the JIT The Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, RISS, a Kremlin-funded think tank, published recently an essay with...

Vulnerable Europe: EU braces for new refugee and pandemic crises

By Janusz Bugajski, for CEPA While the number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases continues to grow, a new wave of Middle Eastern refugees could...

Second anniversary of Salisbury Novichok poisoning: a look back

By EU vs Disinfo Although two years have gone by since the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, disinformation narratives by the pro-Kremlin media are...

Coronavirus meets Hollywood

By EU vs Disinfo While the volume of disinformation cases about the coronavirus levelled off this week, their creativity did not disappoint. Besides the...

The Baltic Pipe сase: disinformation at the service of the Kremlin’s energy policy

By EU vs Disinfo Four languages, one message from the pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets: becoming independent from Russian gas is just a bad idea. A new gas...

Propaganda сomes at a сost

By EU vs Disinfo Russian political decision makers continue to prioritise running disinformation campaigns at home and abroad. One of the implementers of this policy, the...