Saturday, November 23, 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 Kremlin’s Multipolar Order of Disinformation

By ERUvsDisinfo September is a busy month at the United Nations. Delegations from all over the world flock to New York to take their seats...

Please, Please Fear Us!

By EUvsDisinfo This week, we focus on two acts illustrating the Kremlin’s playbook of deceit and manipulations. First, Putin in St. Petersburg issuing a kind-of...

A Sleepwalking Kremlin Tells Ukraine to Keep Dreaming of EU Accession

By EUvsDisinfo Pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets try to conjure insurmountable obstacles on Ukraine’s EU accession path, but despite all the Kremlin’s lies Ukraine has charted its...

Kremlin Disinformation on Moldova’s Referendum

By EUvsDisinfo On 20 October, Moldovans will head to the polls to elect a new president. Also on the ballot: the country’s future relations with...

The Kursk Advance and New Kremlin Narratives: a Perfect Storm for the ‘Temnik’

By EUvsDisinfo Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Kremlin’s propaganda and disinformation machine has developed a whole category of...

Kremlin Disinformation Targets US Elections

By EUvsDisinfo The US presidential elections will take place on 5 November. And despite their protestations of indifference, warmongers in the Kremlin seem keenly interested...

The Kremlin’s Futile Disinfo Trash Catapult

By EUvsDisinfo Russia’s ongoing war of conquest in Ukraine was the first point on the agenda when EU foreign and defence ministers met in Brussels...

Back to school in Russia – more revision of history

By EUvsDisinfo In this longread, we examine the role of the Russian school system in social engineering, shaping a streamlined, Kremlin-controlled way of thinking for...

Computer Games the Kremlin Plays

By EUvsDisinfo Enter the world of IDI. A synthetic brainwasher created by the Kremlin, one of its latest tools in the quest to manipulate and control the...

Pro-Russia, pro-Wagner activity surges following Mali and Wagner forces’ defeat in battle

By Valentin Châtelet, for DFRLab An inauthentic network of YouTube channels pushed pro-AES and anti-Ukraine narratives after the Tinzaouaten confrontation. A network of twenty-seven YouTube channels, targeting...