Thursday, April 25, 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.

The Alphabet book of pro-Kremlin disinformation (Part III: M – R)

By EU vs Disinfo The Claims The Facts M   Media, The Americans and Europeans do not have freedom of speech anymore. Mainstream media is controlled by the financial elites...

Missiles, paedophilia, and the Anglo-Saxon totalitarian caste system

By EU vs Disinfo It has been an eventful couple of weeks for the Kremlin’s disinformation machine, with several inconvenient topics – from the United...

In Ethiopia, disinformation spreads through Facebook live as political tensions rise

By Endalk, for Global Voices On July 18, two Ethiopian protest groups clashed in front of the Ethiopian embassy in Washington, DC, in the United...

Governments countering disinformation: The case of Sweden

By Christina la Cour, for DisinfoPortal Last September, the Swedish people went to the polls to elect a new government. Before the election, disinformation campaigns...

Russia’s UK Embassy fires back at Skripal poisoning sanctions

By Polygraph Embassy of the Russian Federation in London Official Twitter feed “Sanctions and accusations are poor substitute for evidence. And the latter lacks utterly.” Source: Twitter,...

The ABC of Kremlin crisis management

By EU vs Disinfo In Russia’s current crisis around the upcoming local elections in Moscow, some of the dominating media outlets have conducted a disinformation...

Sputnik falsely claims that NATO combats Orthodoxy

By Polygraph Sputnik Serbia Russian government-sponsored web portal “The persecution of the SPC in North Macedonia, as well as the latest heightened tensions and pressure on...

Disinformation and European erosion in Romania

By Radu Magdin, for Disinfo Portal Romania has a reputation as one of the most pro-EU and pro-US countries in Europe. Public opinion barometers demonstrate...

War weariness combined with desire for efficacy explains Zelensky’s appeal, Kirillova says

By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia For six years, Ukrainians have had to fight a war they did not choose but that arose as a...

Figure of the week: 200,000

By EU vs Disinfo UK media regulator Ofcom has fined RT £200,000 for breaching impartiality rules. Ofcom’s investigation found that RT failed to preserve due impartiality...