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.

Storytelling the Disinformation. Part 1

By EU vs Disinfo The Premise Once upon the Time, in a kingdom far, far away, a dragon was keeping the entire people hostage, poisoning it...

Black Is The New Orange

By EU vs Disinfo The Kremlin’s New Take on Colour Revolutions Pro-Kremlin media are continuing to push disinformation around the racial injustice protests in the US...

Toppling Lenin: The lessons of Ukraine’s memory wars

Ukraine Alert by Peter Dickinson, for Atlantic Council The Black Lives Matter movement has led to a wave of monument removals across Europe and North America in...

The Kremlin Goes Orwellian On Orwell

By EU vs Disinfo Newspeak as Editorial Policy Recently, Russian Strategic Culture Foundation published an article, referring to George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. This is not very original;...

One group that’s really benefitted from Covid-19: Anti-vaxxers

By Laura Hazard Owen, for NiemanLab The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to...

Putin, a Rainbow Flag, and Discrimination in Russia

By Polygraph Vladimir PutinRussian President“In Russia, there has not been, is not, and will not be anything that is associated with restrictions on rights based...

“Mind your own business”

By EU vs Disinfo The Kremlin Cracks Down on Journalism Within the first week since the Russian constitution was amended in a spurious voting process, a campaign...

Pro-Kremlin disinformation keeps ignoring basic facts on Syria

By EU vs Disinfo Disinformation Ignores Responsibilities of Russia and its Allies, Scapegoats the EU EU sanctions on Syria have been a favourite target of disinformation...

Ping pong pact policy

By EU vs Disinfo The Kremlin on the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact One feature in the Kremlin disinformation efforts is the lack of consistency. Disinformation outlets...

Coronavirus: misinformation is leading to ‘fake news’ anxieties in Dutch refugee communities

By Ilse van Liempt, Mieke Kox, for The Conversation The coronavirus pandemic has led to a crisis among asylum seekers and refugees in the Netherlands....