Tuesday, November 26, 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.

Into The Heart Of Darkness – What Russia Wants In Ukraine

By EU vs Disinfo As we are struggling to comprehend the Russian atrocities in Bucha, Mariupol and elsewhere in Ukraine, RIA Novosti on 3 April published a...

Do Not Resist The Liberation

By EU vs Disinfo The battlefield dynamics of Putin’s bloody war of aggression against Ukraine continue to be extremely fluid, but as we enter the...

From Dance Videos To Coordinated Lip-Syncing In Support Of War

By EU vs Disinfo Social media platforms are widely used to spread disinformation, also during conflicts. With over 1 billion users worldwide, TikTok is no...

Poland Is Not Going To Share The Territories Of Ukraine With Russia, Hungary And...

By Myth Detector On March 23rd, the Facebook page “Новости и Политика” published a story prepared by the YouTube channel “Аспекты.” The story alleged...

Forced Support

By EU vs Disinfo At a pro-war rally in Moscow, tens of thousands of Muscovites were bribed or forced to demonstrate unity behind the leader. Russia’s...

Russian Aggression And Disinformation In Ukraine

By EU vs Disinfo A month has passed since Russia launched an all-out war against Ukraine. This was an act of unprovoked aggression against a...

The Harder You Push, The Harder They Resist

By EU vs Disinfo Today marks one month since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. That is a second month of what was supposed to be...

Propaganda Kills: How Years of Russian Disinformation Have Led to Mass Civilian Deaths in...

By Vitalii Rybak, for UkraineWorld As Russian troops launched a new invasion of Ukraine, Russian propaganda has provided information support to invading troops that destroy...

If Russia Is Saving Europe From Fascists, Why Is Putin Acting Like One?

By William Echols, for Polygraph Yevgeny TomikhinRussian Ambassador to Thailand"Europeans still don't understand that Russia is saving them Nazism. It was done in 1945,...

A Game Of Cat And Mouse Between Censors And Citizens

By EU vs Disinfo Russian citizens are finding it increasingly difficult to access factual news. Not least because of the law “on responsibility for fakes...