Friday, April 26, 2024

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.

Figure of the week: 1/3

By EU vs Disinfo Only 1 in 3 Russians say they trust the news programmes on the state-controlled TV channels Pervyi Kanal and Rossiya 1,...

Ecuadorian leak. Millions of data records in the Web

Sources: vpnMentor, El Comercio, El Universo, BBC In the mid-September 2019 the rarely seen personal data leak had place. The data of over twenty million...

Truth at any cost. Vatican versus fake news

“The task of a journalist is to identify reliable sources, putting them in the context and interpreting them”, said pope Francis on the meeting...

Russian Foreign Ministry denies the Soviet Union occupied Estonia

By Polygraph Maria Zakharova Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson "On this subject, we would like to again emphasize that Russia’s position remains the same: we find it unacceptable...

False: Russia’s OSCE Rep claims Kosovo a failed “quasi-state entity”

By Polygraph Aleksandr Lukashevich Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) “Quasi-state entity in Kosovo is a failure....

The Kremlin on global warming: connecting the dots; disconnecting the facts

By EU vs Disinfo Judging from pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets, the Global Warming is just a conspiracy. The Russia based Oriental Review suggest “connecting the dots...

The Kremlin Über-Propagandist and the beef against liberalism

By EU vs Disinfo A Swedish professor, allegedly suggesting cannibalism as a means of curbing the climate change, became a centrepiece of the TV show...

Russian diplomatic Twitter accounts rewrite history of World War II

By Eto Buziashvili, for DFRLab Official Twitter accounts amplified the hashtag #TruthAboutWWII in an effort to justify the Soviet Union’s signing of the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression...

False: Russian claim Georgia denied USNS Yuma entry to its Black Sea port

By Polygraph Avia.pro Russian news agency “The Georgian authorities are not giving a U.S. Navy transport permission to enter their country’s territorial waters.” Source: Yandex.ru, September...

Attack on Skripal and chemical attack in Syria are linked by one thing –...

Functioning in the internet, using social media, being a member of closed topic groups, we put ourselves at risk of being a target of...