Friday, January 31, 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.

Czech Echoes of the Kremlin’s Information War

2014 marked the end of the post-Cold War era as we knew it and revived the significance of geopolitics. The turmoil in Ukraine has...

Sofi Oksanen in Toronto: how history is falsified – deportations in the politics of...

Sofi Oksanen’s speech at the Toronto Conference on Repressions and Human Rights: Commemorating the 1949 Baltic Deportations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=176&v=6ZOWfto8Ykk From an early age I wanted to become...

Index of Russian propaganda efficiency

Between February 14 and February 24, 2015 Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) conducted the nation-wide public opinion poll. The survey was conducted in...

U.S. losing “information war” to Russia, other rivals – study

(Reuters) - The United States is losing an information war to Russia, Islamic State and other rivals, says a new report that calls for...

How Russia Today is using YouTube

  When Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim founded YouTube in an office over a California pizza shop in 2005, they described it as...

Volunteers Start Service TrolleyBust

TrolleyBust– a beta version of services to block anti-Ukrainian propaganda – has been launched in Ukraine. TrolleyBust’s founders wrote on the service’s homepage that this...

Russian State TV Anchor: ‘Propaganda Is Journalism’

Andrei Kondrashov is one of 300 media professionals awarded by Russian President Vladimir Putin for their "objective" coverage of events in Crimea. Speaking to...

EU Launches First Step in Spreading Word Against Russian ‘Disinformation’

The European Union is set to launch a first operation in a new propaganda war with Russia within days of EU leaders giving formal approval to the campaign at a summit...

Russian Imperialism’s Internet Triumph

With nearly 5 million views in less than two weeks, the YouTube video I’m a Russian Occupant is a bonafide sensation. Just under three...

Ketchum calls it quits on Russia work

Ketchum has ended the bulk of its work for the Russian Federation in the US and Europe amid continuing tensions between the country and...