Monday, November 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 Dangerous Case Of Nuclear Corners

By EU vs Disinfo The past ten days have been very busy for Russian disinformation outlets and their amplifiers throughout the pro-Kremlin disinformation ecosystem. On...

Burning Bridges, Breaking Contracts

By EU vs Disinfo Following Putin’s toxic and disinformation-laden speech last week, the main topics that have been reverberating through the pro-Kremlin disinformation ecosystem are ‘partial mobilisation’...

Back To The USSR? Russian TV On Referendums And Mobilisation

By EU vs Disinfo Watching Russian state TV is increasingly like entering a parallel world. The more tense the topics become – the referendums, military...

Pro-Kremlin Wikipedia alternative off to a rough start

By Eto Buziashvili and Andy Carvin, for @DFRLAb Member-only pages, restrictive content policies, and a lack of transparency: Runiversalis is a wiki in name only Runiversalis (руни.рф),...

Mad Rush For Illegitimate Hold On Occupied Territories

By EU vs Disinfo Last week, our Disinformation Review covered the mad scramble of pro-Kremlin disinformation pundits to hide the scope and success of the Ukrainian counteroffensive...

Putin Scaremongering – A Quick Guide

By EU vs Disinfo Over the years, we have become accustomed to floods of Russian disinformation and manipulation. Since the Maidan in 2013, the illegal...

Russia-aligned hacktivists stir up anti-Ukrainian sentiments in Poland

By Givi Gigitashvili, for DFRLab Russian Telegram channels possibly linked to Ghostwriter amplified forged letters published by hacktivist assets On August 16, 2022, pro-Kremlin Telegram channel...

Key Narratives In Pro-Kremlin Disinformation: “Nazis”

By EU vs Disinfo A defining feature of pro-Kremlin disinformation is its repetitiveness. For all the outrageous claims they make, pro-Kremlin outlets often sound like...

Russia Can’t Stop Lying About U.S. Bioweapon Labs in Ukraine

By William Echols, for Polygraph Nikolai PatrushevRussian Security Council Secretary "During the special military operation , many facts were revealed confirming that such laboratories developed components...

Without You

By EU vs Disinfo Successful Ukrainian counteroffensive exposes cracks in Russian infosphere, but colonial attitudes and toxic hate speech still prevail inspiring more atrocities. The successful Ukrainian...