The presentation of decoupled or completely fake images and videos as evidence of war events is a common false content on the network.
The war is being waged with false information.
Already in the first days of the Russian invasion, videos that were completely out of context were shown as real-time footage on the spot.
Some of the claims that originated in Some have reached millions of audiences before the data has been shown to be inaccurate.
In this story, we tell you how the four false news or allegations about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine originated and what actually happened.
1. In a fake video, President Zelenskyi seems to surrender
The video, created with deepfake technology, spread on Some and was also published by hackers on the website of a Ukrainian television company.
A video made with deepfake technology, presented by the President of Ukraine, began to spread on social media on Wednesday Volodymyr Zelensky giving a speech. In a video, a machine voice imitating Zelensky urges Ukrainian defenders to lay down their arms and return to their homes.
The false video was also shown on the website of the television channel Ukraine 24 on Wednesday. In addition, at the bottom of the channel’s news broadcast, a text was circulating for a moment, incorrectly claiming Ukraine to surrender.
2. Russia accuses Ukraine of manufacturing biological weapons
Russia accuses Ukraine of producing dangerous pathogens with US support. The allegation ended in a broadcast by Fox News, although no evidence can be found to support it.
The Russian Foreign Ministry released on March 6 tweet (switch to another service), alleging that Ukraine manufactures biological weapons. The ministry said Russian troops had found evidence of secret U.S.-backed laboratories in Kharkiv and Poltava.
According to Russian news broadcasts, there are as many as 30 secret laboratories across the country. Authorities In China (switch to another service)Iran and Syria have continued to spread the false claim.
In the United States, theories about clandestine bioassay laboratories first spread to the right-wing alternative media and eventually ended up Fox News (switch to another service) current transmission.
Representatives of the Ukrainian and US governments have denied making biological weapons in Ukraine.
However, it is true that the United States is funding Ukrainian laboratories, and so is the EU and the World Health Organization. The laboratories are secret and are working to combat the outbreak of dangerous infectious disease epidemics.
As part of disease research, the laboratory deals with dangerous pathogens. The WHO has recommended that Ukraine eradicate pathogens so that they do not fall into the wrong hands in war or release into the environment.
3. Ukrainian actors are alleged to have staged an attack on Russia
The video from the filming of the TV series was used as evidence that the Ukrainians are just acting out the suffering caused by the war.
Several sake users who support the Russian invasion claim that the mainstream media presents staged material about the Russian invasion, in which Ukrainians “crisis actors (moving to another service)“Only depict suffering war victims.
In early March, a video began to spread in Some in which a young woman and a man were masked with artificial blood. It was presented by video distributors as evidence that Ukraine had staged the entire war. The video has garnered millions of views.
News agency Reuters (switch to another service) according to the video is actually related to the filming of the Ukrainian TV series Contamin in December 2020. The series is set in Ukraine and tells the story of an imaginary pandemic created in the laboratory.
The Russian authorities have also agreed with conspiracy theories.
4. The story of the border guards smelled of a warship turned out to be untrue
It was revealed that the border guards defending the small island of the Black Sea were not killed, but were captured by Russian soldiers.
On the evening of the first day of the war, an adviser to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine released audio clip (switch to another service). The recording allegedly contains a conversation between the crew of a Russian warship and Ukrainian border guards.
The border guard refuses to surrender and sniffs the warship’s crew. The recording has been listened to almost a million times.
The story was born of 13 border guards who lost their lives defending the small Snake Island in the Black Sea from a Russian invasion. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi rushed in his speech to declare the border guards war heroes.
There is a large amount of misleading information and state propaganda about Russia’s war in Ukraine. With the tips of the lie detector, you will learn to avoid the worst traps.
1. Perform a Reverse Image Search
Recycling old images and videos as evidence of new events is perhaps the most common false content on the web. Reverse Image Search is an easy and quick way to find out if an image has ever been published in another context.
2. Examine the metadata
Photos (go to another service) and videos (switch to another service) metadata can tell when they were described. Sometimes the data also shows where it was taken.
3. Follow the correspondents on site
Many media have had to pull their correspondents out of Russia because they cannot cover the war without fear of a prison sentence. Instead, there are numerous journalists in Ukraine who report on the war on the ground.
4. Follow the fact-finding sites
Factual revisions related to the war in Ukraine are now published by many, for example AP Fact Check (switch to another service), Snopes (switch to another service), Politifact (switch to another service)and Ukrainians Stop Fake (switch to another service) and Vox Ukraine (switch to another service).
5. Remember the confirmation bias!
It’s always worth keeping in mind that we’re affected by cognitive biases that make us believe in the kind of content we want to believe in.
For example, many now share official individual stories about Ukraine because they become in good spirits. These should also be checked first.
Don’t jump in even if someone claims the video is fake if no evidence has been presented.
Source: Lie Detector: Now be careful – you may accidentally distribute war propaganda
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