Friday, November 29, 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.

Question Less: RT Strike-Breakers Replace Belarusian Journalists On Strike

By EU vs Disinfo Journalists at the Belarusian State Channels started a strike 17 August. Alyaksandr Lukashenka reacted with almost immediately firing everybody and requesting...

Salisbury All Over Again

By EU vs Disinfo There are numerous parallels to draw, and the pro-Kremlin media has scrambled in an attempt to draw as many as possible. In a striking case of déja vu, pro-Kremlin media is seeking to muddy the waters surrounding the suspected poisoning of...

Belarus Says Oppo Leaders Fled; Evidence Suggests Forced Deportation

By Polygraph BeltaBelarusian state news agency“The members of the so-called coordination council, Anton Rodnenkov, Ivan Kravtsov and Maria Kolesnikova, tried to leave the territory of...

Disinformation Alignment

By EU vs Disinfo Protests in Belarus have been taking place for almost a month now. In the meantime, Belarusian and Russian state-controlled media have...

“The German Statement Follows Goebbel’s Laws On Propaganda” The Kremlin, The Navalny Case And...

By EU vs Disinfo German experts have concluded that Russian dissident and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a military-grade chemical nerve agent of the Novichok group. The...

Kiwi journalist caught up in misinformation campaign puppeteered by Russian trolls

By Brittney Deguara, for Stuff A Kiwi freelance journalist was unknowingly caught up in a Russian misinformation campaign disguised as a global news organization. Laura Walters, a former Stuff reporter...

The spirit of „Solidarity” – Polish PM’s article in Ukrainian media

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki published a special article in foreign media for the 40th anniversary of the “Solidarity”. In Ukraine, it was published...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: French military officer detained over espionage for Russia

Topics of the Week The expulsions and arrests over Russian espionage in Europe are not over yet, this time in France. Disinformation campaigns in the US...

Microsoft’s New Deepfake Detector Puts Reality to the Test

By Vanessa Bates Ramirez, for Singularity Hub The upcoming US presidential election seems set to be something of a mess—to put it lightly. Covid-19 will likely...

Figure Of The Week: 6 Billion

By EU vs Disinfo To discredit the ongoing protests in Belarus, both pro-Kremlin and Belarusian state-controlled media rely on an increasingly converging set of disinformation...