Wednesday, May 8, 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.

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...

Scorching the Earth with disinformation

By EU vs Disinfo The scorched-earth tactics sometimes prove successful in conventional warfare. How does it work in the disinformation world? 207 years ago Moscow burst...

Fake: Poland shares responsibility for starting WWII

Russia usually engage its whole state apparatus in its propaganda actions, creating one consistent front of disinformation. In the last days, we could have...

Figure of the Week: 37

By EU vs Disinfo  For pro-Kremlin social media the Yellow Vest protests were 37 times more important than the protests in Moscow. The Russian local election and the protests in...

Russia wants us to be scared

Propaganda war in which Poland unwittingly participates touches also the international cooperation sphere. Russian propagandists through with their actions aim our alliances, trying to...