Wednesday, November 27, 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.

Kremlin Watch Briefing: Sputnik V debacle in Slovakia

TOPICS OF THIS WEEK Russian vaccine diplomacy is dented in Slovakia as health regulator spots discrepancies. Hungary continues its pivot towards Russia and China by planning...

All By Myself

By EU vs Disinfo The Loneliness Factor These days, most people intuitively grasp that loneliness creates mental health challenges. As COVID-19 forced societies into lockdowns, many realized we...

Sacrificing Lives Defending “Family Values”

By EU vs Disinfo Russia Withdraws from UN Campaign against HIV In a recent article, EuvsDisinfo showed how Kremlin disinformation on the coronavirus pandemic impedes Russia’s attempts to...

The Jokers Of The Kremlin Court

By EU vs Disinfo Everyone likes a good laugh, and satire is an essential part of the public discourse. Satire can be fine-tuned and subtle,...

Disinformation Build-Up: Pro-Kremlin Media Reinvigorate Their Focus On Ukraine

By EU vs Disinfo Pro-Kremlin media spread disinformation to support the build-up of Russian troops and military equipment along Ukraine’s borders. In the times of a...

How Putin made the international media his unwitting accomplices

By Peter Dickinson, for UkraineAlert The headline read like a Moscow propagandist’s dream. “Kremlin says fears Ukrainian side could restart civil war in eastern Ukraine,” it declared....

Fact-checking in Nepal in the time of pandemic: The spread of the virus opened...

By Sanjib Chaudhary, for Global Voices From exposing the misleading social media photos about the recent wildfires to discrediting COVID-19 hoaxes, the South Asia Check group has...

Baltics and Ukraine targeted for refusing Sputnik V, with social media amplifying false messages

By InformNapalm Article prepared by Debunk EU senior analyst in Lithuania Laima Venclauskienė and first time published in Debunk EU web page. With global COVID-19 vaccination programmes getting into the full...

Google to contribute €25 million to new EU fund to fight fake news

By EURACTIV.com wirh Reuters Alphabet unit Google will contribute 25 million euros to the newly set up European Media and Information Fund to combat fake...

The Perpetual 1 April Of The Kremlin Disinfo

By EU vs Disinfo 1 April is globally celebrated as ”April Fools’ Day”; an international exercise in source criticism. Newsrooms attempt to fool the readers...