Friday, November 22, 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.

How Russian TV uses psychology over Ukraine

Russian state TV's coverage of the conflict in Ukraine does not simply contain one-sided and often misleading propaganda. It also appears to employ techniques...

Tickling Twitter’s Funnybone: Putin Can Destroy NATO With What?

Call it the headline that launched a thousand tweets. For the February 1 broadcast of his program Vesti Nedeli, the bombastic television presenter Dmitry Kiselyov used the...

Fake ‘Ukrainian’ News Websites Run by Russian ‘Troll Army’ Offshoots

Russia has engaged in a blitzkrieg of information warfare since the start of the Euromaidan protests, increasing the budget of RT (formerly Russia Today)...

Pro-Moscow Groups Launch Websites for ‘Peoples Republics’ in Latvia and Lithuania

Pro-Moscow groups have launched websites for a so-called Latgale Peoples Republic in southeastern Latvia and a so-called Vilnius Peoples Republic around the capital of...

Russia Update: Court Upholds Definition of Soldiers’ Mothers of St. Petersburg as ‘Foreign Agent’

A court rejected the attempt by the Soldiers’ Mothers of St. Petersburg to remove the designation of “foreign agent,” despite the fact that the...

Germany Faces Tricky Quest Countering Russian Propaganda

Germany is launching a new international news service to counter Russia’s aggressive propaganda push in Europe. The only problem: Employees of Deutsche Welle, the...

How to Kremlin sees the blogosphere: “Guards”, “Opposition”, and “Neutrals”

Incredibly valuable hack from Anonymous International – Russia. This document appears to be an internal Kremlin index of the relevant bloggers: divided into “Guards” (either...

A journalist revealed that a mass hate scene of Donetsk citizens on a “parade...

A blogger from Donetsk with a nickname ‘pauluskp’ showed the true picture of the "parade of captured" Ukrainian soldiers organized by terrorists from DNR. He...

“Vesti Nedeli” with Dmitry Kiselev showed Russian soldiers in Donetsk airport

January 18, "Vesti Nedeli" with Dmitry Kiselev (TV channel "Russia 1") showed the story of the Donetsk airport storm (2:47 of the program). It...

Russia’s Reaction to EU ‘Counter-Propaganda’ Channel Hints at Fear

Russia's Foreign Ministry slammed the European Union's plan to create a Russian-language television channel in Europe as an attack on free speech, an official reaction that analysts say was tinged with...