Thursday, May 2, 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.

How the (ro)bots follow celebrities and politicians

The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP) in London has recently published the results of the investigation about the authenticity of the accounts following...

Don’t mention Crimea!

By EU vs Disinfo The facts about Crimea’s annexation are now a taboo in Russia and subject to censorship. When the Russian version of Israeli author...

The imperialist West strikes again (also, sex!)

By EU vs Disinfo Of the Kremlin’s favoured disinformation narratives, perhaps the most enduring is whataboutism about the supposedly persistent evils of Western imperialism and...

The Bellingcat: Suspected Assassin In The Berlin Killing Used Fake Identity Documents

By Bellingcat Investigation Team What we know so far Last Friday, 23 August 2019, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Georgian citizen living in Germany, was assassinated in downtown...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: The Kremlin keeps twisting history with little repercussion

Topics of the Week The Kremlin twists history once again on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Germany and Finland show...

RT Questions Tusks’ Claim Ukraine a Better G7 Fit than Russia

FRANCE - World leaders pose for a a photograph during the G7 summit in Biarritz on August 25, 2019. By Polygraph RT anonymous author “How this made Kyiv...

Figure of The Week: 7

By EU vs Disinfo 7 Factors which Make Disinformation Appealing to our Brain Lies spread faster than truth, and the study by Eindhoven University of Technology suggests...

Towards Total Disinformation

By EU vs Disinfo Is it possible for media to be a little bit free? Russian lawmakers vow to introduce a new law that will further...

The fireworks of pro-Kremlin disinformation

By EU vs Disinfo This week is the 80th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact – a non-aggression agreement between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Labelled...

When you can’t trust a liar is lying – whom can you trust?

By EU vs Disinfo News Front has always been a reliable source of disinformation. The site, operated from illegally annexed Crimea, is ambitiously publishing lies...