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.

Twitter will now label state-controlled media accounts

By Hanaa' Tameez, for NiemanLab Twitter is going to start labeling state-run news organizations as such, it announced on last Thursday. It will also explicitly label...

Andriy Derkach and his tapes. About one special operation to interfere in the US...

By Mykhailo Makaruk, for InformNapalm The “Derkach tapes” were first spoken about after the press conference by Andriy Derkach, that took place on May 19....

US Exposes Russian Tactics to Sway American Elections

By Nike Ching, for VoA News The United States exposed Russia’s tactics of using a combination of “official, proxy, and unattributed communication channels and platforms”...

Iran’s Military Bragging is Classic. Often It Goes a Little Too Far

By Polygraph Amir Ali HajizadehAerospace Force brigadier general, Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps"During the Payambar-e Azam 14 (The Great Prophet) war games in south Iran, IRGC...

Bestiarium Kremlinensis G – R

By EU vs Disinfo Warning: Satire Fear is the main element in Russian politics. The EUvsDisinfo has outlined a few of the phobias, plaguing the Kremlin leadership....

Bestiarium Kremlinensis C – F

By EU vs Disinfo Warning: Satire Fear is the main element in Russian politics. The EUvsDisinfo has outlined a few of the phobias, plaguing the Kremlin leadership....

Storytelling the Disinformation. Part 3

Источник: EU vs Disinfo The Threatened Values Once upon the Time, in a kingdom far, far away, a dragon was keeping the entire population hostage, poisoning...

Lots of visible likes and shares on social lead people to spread more misinformation

By Laura Hazard Owen, for NiemanLab When people saw that a questionable piece of content had been liked and shared lots of times, they were...

In the Wake of Russian Propaganda: How the Kremlin Attacks Facebook with Ukrainian Media

By Natalia Ishchenko, for Den Den Daily Newspaper (day.kyiv.ua): №142-143, (2020) For a month now, there has been a scuffle and a brawl in media circles...

To Outshout and Overpower: How Russia Is Trying to Influence the Ukrainian Information Environment...

By Yuriy Lapayev, for Tyzhden.ua Weekly Magazine, № 31 (663), July 29 2020. More than five years ago, Ukraine attracted the attention of world media. It...