According to the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research (DFR) Lab, the War on Fakes website's original Russian version and Telegram channel were registered on 23 February 2022, the day before the invasion of Ukraine.

[2] A March 2023 investigation by Logically, a British disinformation analysis organisation, found that Timofey Vasiliev, a former Russian journalist, is behind War on Fakes.

[3][4] Vasiliev previously worked as a "citizen journalist" for various pro-Kremlin news organisations.

[4] A review of the website's purported fact checks by PolitiFact in August 2022 found that they were pieces of disinformation that relied on well-known techniques used in Russian propaganda to confuse readers trying to learn about the war in Ukraine.

[5] In February 2023, Roman Osadchuk of the Atlantic Council's DFR Lab said that War on Fakes had "become a powerhouse of spreading false debunks", adding, "It works primarily because fact-checking usually serves for readers as an 'authoritative' source to seek 'objective information.