Tuesday, December 24, 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.

Four pillars of defense against deepfakes

In the era of rapid development of artificial intelligence, the threats of deepfakes and disinformation have reached an unprecedented scale. Creating fake digital content...

AI chatbots and disinformation about the war in Ukraine

The development of artificial intelligence, particularly generative models such as chatbots based on large language models (LLMs), has opened up new opportunities for providing...

OSINTukraine: a citizen response to disinformation about the war in Ukraine

OSINTukraine (https://osintukraine.com/) is a project initiated by Ben from Belgium, a solution architect with 20 years of experience in information monitoring, automation and the...

Ordinary Poles in the Crosshairs of Belarusian Propaganda

The Belarusian authorities, realizing that it is currently impossible to unfreeze official contacts with Poland, have focused on ordinary Poles. To influence them, Polish-language...

History at Putin’s service. Revisionism and historical populism

Introduction The mainstay of the regime of hard authoritarianism in the Russian Federation called “Putinism” is state ideology, and its foundation is the cult of...

Russian disinformation in Ibero-America and impact on the BRICS group

During Vladimir Putin's five terms as President of Russia, Moscow has created a complex disinformation ecosystem as part of its national security apparatus. These...

Kremlin’s Disinformation Game: Why Spread Rumors About Putin’s Illness?

Old Methods of Dictators In recent years, rumors of Vladimir Putin's ill health or even death have regularly circulated in global media and social channels....

1 000 and 4 000 Days of Russian Brainwashing under the Guise of Education

By EUvsDisinfo Information manipulation and disinformation can take many forms. As we have already indicated, it can be used to prepare the ground for battle, to...

Paradoxical Prigozhin cult, or Russian propaganda in a trap

A peculiar cult of Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner Group has been flourishing in Russia for some time. And this is despite the June...

New European Commission and the Kremlin’s Envy and Disdain

By EUvsDisinfo The Kremlin has a problem with democracy – also with the European Union’s democracy. According to the Kremlin’s claims, there is not enough...