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Ukraine Invasion: False Claims The War Is A Hoax Go Viral by nurudeen181(m): 12:01pm On Mar 08, 2022 |
Ukraine invasion: False claims the
war is a hoax go viral
By Shayan Sardarizadeh & Olga Robinson
BBC Monitoring
9 hours ago
Russia-Ukraine war
This footage from a 2020 TV series is being shared with claims it
shows actors being made up to be victims of the Ukraine war
Nearly two weeks after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the flow of
false or misleading information about the war hasn't let up and now
there are some outlandish theories being shared online.
Some have begun to circulate claims the war is a hoax, a media
fabrication, or has been exaggerated by the West in terms of its
scale.
We've examined some of them.
False claims about "crisis actors"
A video of a young woman and a young man having fake blood
applied to their faces has racked up millions of views on multiple
platforms.
It is shared as supposed evidence that the war in Ukraine is a hoax
and civilian victims are actually "crisis actors" - people hired to act
out scenes from an attack.
This image is from a 2020 Ukrainian TV series and unrelated to the
Russian invasion
But the video is unrelated to the war. It was shot in 2020 on the
production set of Ukrainian TV series Contamin .
The male actor can be seen in behind-the-scenes images from the
set tweeted in December 2020.
Bts from set of Contamin tv series. #backstage
#unitstillsphotography #onset #bts #setlife #hvozdkov
#ukrainian @FujifilmX_US @_fujilove_ #fujixt30
pic.twitter.com/8xBY0HTjkk
— CinemaPeople (@CinemaPeople_) December 7, 2020
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.
View original tweet on Twitter
Moving corpse
A video of a news reporter in front of multiple body bags has gone
viral on several major social networks, and has been spread widely
by pro-Kremlin accounts.
Seconds into the clip, one of the body bags starts moving, a man
removes the cover and is attended to by a photographer.
Social media posts claim the video was shot in Ukraine and proves
the war is either a hoax or manufactured by "Western propaganda".
Video of a climate change protest in Vienna is being presented as
fake Ukrainian victims from the war
But the claims are false. The video clip is from a climate change
protest in Vienna in early February, as reported by Austrian
newspaper Osterreich . Organised by "Friday for Future" climate
activists, the depiction of body bags aimed to highlight the danger of
carbon emissions to human life.
The same video was shared by conspiracy groups last month with
false claims that it showed a Covid "crisis actor" .
False wooden guns claim
A screenshot of a Fox News broadcast showing two Ukrainian men
holding what appear to be wooden guns has gone viral.
It is often accompanied by false claims that the war in Ukraine is a
hoax and the fact that they are not real guns is proof of this.
Fake guns were given to civilian volunteers willing to train to
defend their communities before the war
The footage actually dates back to mid-February, before the war
began.
It was taken during a training course provided by the far-right Azov
battalion for civilian volunteers in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv willing
to defend themselves and their communities in case of a Russian
invasion.
Ukraine invasion: Misleading claims continue to go viral
Ukraine conflict: Further false images shared online
Ukraine conflict: Many misleading images shared online
Steven Seagal is not fighting in Ukraine
A false tweet - seemingly sent by CNN's verified Twitter account -
claims US actor Steven Seagal, who is a dual US-Russian national,
has been spotted "among Russian special forces" near Ukraine's
capital of Kyiv.
Along with ordinary users, the tweet has been picked up by
influential accounts with huge followings, including US podcast host
Joe Rogan, who shared it with his 14 million followers on Instagram.
A false tweet about Steven Seagal fighting in Ukraine was shared
by Joe Rogan
But Mr Seagal is not fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine,
and the tweet was probably generated by one of the multiple free
online tools that enables users to create fake - but authentic-looking
- tweets from verified accounts.
The actor, 69, told Fox News last week he looked at both countries
as "one family" and hoped for a "positive, peaceful resolution".
CNN said the image was fabricated and it had "never reported
anything like this".
Mr Rogan later deleted his Instagram post.
Russian diplomat shares false tweet
A Russian diplomat has shared screenshots showing a fabricated
story about a journalist being killed in Ukraine during the Russian
invasion.
"How to make a fake… colleagues, beware, the main battle is not in
Ukraine, it's with lies and fakes of MSM" tweeted Dmitry Polyansky,
Russia's deputy ambassador to the UN, referring to "mainstream
media" as MSM.
His post was accompanied by a tweet alleging that CNN had
reported on the death of "Bernie Gores" in Ukraine, after sharing a
story about the same man's demise in Afghanistan during the
Taliban takeover last year.
An image of YouTuber Jordie Jordan was used with a false identity
to claim he was reported as dead in Ukraine by CNN
But the screenshots presented as proof of fabrication come from
fake CNN accounts - both of which have since been suspended by
Twitter. And the man presented in the images as Bernie Gores is in
fact a YouTuber, who is very much alive, called Jordie Jordan.
A CNN representative told fact-checkers from Reuters the posts
were "absolute fiction" .
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False footage
Different versions of a video of a large crowd being asked by a
director to run and scream in fear have racked up hundreds of
thousands of views on multiple platforms.
It is claimed the video was leaked from Ukraine, suggesting some of
the distressing scenes run by media outlets are actually fabricated.
Behind-the-scenes footage from the film Invasion Planet Earth is
being shared in the context of the Ukraine invasion
But the video was actually shot in Birmingham's Victoria Square in
2013 for the sci-fi film Invasion Planet Earth, which at the time was
titled Kaleidoscope Man.
The film's director, Simon Cox, said on Twitter he was "shocked to
see my footage being used like this" .
Vice-president's wife didn't join army
Social media users have been sharing an image allegedly showing
the wife of a 'Ukrainian vice-president' who has joined the country's
armed forces to fight the Russian invasion.
However, Ukraine does not have a vice-president.
Twitter users have wrongly claimed that the woman in the picture
is the Ukrainian vice-president's wife
Another version of the claim doing the rounds on Twitter wrongly
suggests that the woman in the picture is Ukraine's first lady Olena
Zelenska.
Fact-checkers Logically have ascertained that the photograph is an
image of a Ukrainian soldier from August 2021.
The original photo was taken during a rehearsal for a military parade
in Kyiv. |
Re: Ukraine Invasion: False Claims The War Is A Hoax Go Viral by Babaheekmat: 12:04pm On Mar 08, 2022 |
Laughing.. USA na bastard |
Re: Ukraine Invasion: False Claims The War Is A Hoax Go Viral by IhateYouMan: 12:06pm On Mar 08, 2022 |
Trash |
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