[1] The magazine was founded in 2017 by students at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and named after the Ancient Greek term Doxa.

After mass arrests in the 2019 Moscow protests, including two DOXA journalists, the magazine launched a project called Here We Stand, offering digital resources against police brutality.

Four of the magazine's editors, Armen Aramyan, Natalya Tyshkevich, Vladimir Metyolkin and Alla Gutnikova, were then charged by the Investigative Committee of Russia with encouraging minors to take part in illegal activity.

Human rights groups raised concerns about the arrests, claiming that they were made in an attempt to suppress freedom of the press in Russia.

[16] In 2023, the magazine was awarded the Student Peace Prize for their work exposing corruption and sexual harassment at universities, documenting state persecution, and fighting government disinformation.