Saturday, March 1, 2025

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.

Cross-pollination among problematic social networks

Having followed with some interest the work @GCINEWS has been doing to expose the leftwing UK allies of Putin's Russia, I decided to take...

Kremlin Mouthpiece Sets Up UK Base in Edinburgh

IT is the voice of the Kremlin and it is to bellow from Edinburgh's West End. Sputnik News - a state mouthpiece of Vladimir Putin's...

Activists Leak Russian Government’s Plans to Create a ‘National Internet’

The data-leaking blog Anonymous International, also known as Shaltai-Boltai (Humpty Dumpty), has published the Russian government’s project proposal for creating a "national information platform,"...

Russia Has Weaponized Its National Trauma

The Kremlin’s drive to weaponize information for the sake of rallying an already traumatized population behind an unrecognized, unjust war is leaving deep-seated scars...

UK Regulator Ofcom Backs BBC in Russian TV Case

The BBC has won a case against Russian TV channel RT, which claimed the corporation faked a report on Syria. The station said the BBC...

Putin’s Information Warfare in Ukraine: Soviet Origins of Russia’s Hybrid Warfare

Russia has been using an advanced form of hybrid warfare in Ukraine since early 2014 that relies heavily on an element of information warfare...

Bellingcat Published Report on Russian Military Crossing the Border of Ukraine

International investigative group Bellingcat published a report on Russian military crossing the Ukrainian border. As Bellingcat states, the current state of the conflict in...

Russia in ‘Information War’ with West to Win Hearts and Minds

The crisis in Ukraine has unleashed what some see as a new bout of information warfare between Russia and the West. For nearly a decade,...

EU Splits in Russian Media War

Even as the EU mobilizes to fight Russian propaganda, European governments are fighting each other over the best way to go about it. A new...

Putin’s Propaganda TV Lies About Its Popularity

Leaked documents from a rival Russian news network show that RT hugely exaggerates its global viewership. Its most-watched segments are on ‘metrosexuals, bums,’ and...