Is it true that the “Non -Staff Press” in the United States pleaded guilty to the White House in explosions on the “northern stream”?

In October 2022, the cover of an American magazine spread on social networks, on the basis of which Internet users made an unambiguous conclusion: at least part of the local media recognizes the act of explosions in the Baltic Sea of ​​the US authorities. We checked the reliability of such messages.

In early October, users of social networks published a cover of a fresh “special issue” of MAD magazine. People depicted on it: US President Joe Biden, President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and red -haired smiling boy in a T -shirt with the inscription "I love gas" - they repeated the famous Antique statue, depicting how the snakes sent by the Trojan soothsayer Laocon and his two sons sent by Poseidon. The “roles” of the serpent on the cover were gas pipes glued with Russian flags. At the same time, Zelensky throws his right hand up, and the red -haired boy holds in his hands a burning lighter. “Of course, it was Biden. He just forgot, ”says the signature for the image.

Given that at the end of September Explosions On gas pipelines "North Stream" and "North Stream - 2", and on September 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused In them, the Anglo-Saxons, a number of Internet users decided that at least part of the American press, presented by MAD magazine, does not hide their consent with such an assessment.

In such a context, the alleged cover of MAD magazine was distributed, in particular, Telegram channels "Peacemaker"(787,000 subscribers at the time of writing this analysis) and"Release Kraken!"(283,000 subscribers), as well as users Facebook* And Twitter.

The magazine MAD, which some Internet users called the Non-Station American Press, is really not among the largest US media. However, it cannot be attributed to journalistic, academic or analytical publications - MAD appeared In the middle of the last century, as a series of comics and only later became a magazine. Nevertheless, its basis - satirical, topical drawn stories - remained the same. Since 2019, magazine issues are almost completely consist From reprints of old materials under freshly launched covers. A boy depicted on the alleged cover with Biden and Zelensky - Alfred E. Newman, the constant hero of these comics.

We could not find the picture in Telegram channels and publics sitenor in social networks Mad Magazine. The publication also did not announce any special missions at the end of October. The number that was released at the beginning of this month It was called The Para (AB) Normal Issue, a little girl and TV are depicted on his cover. The next issue (it is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the publication) will be published only two months later, its cover is already announced - On her the “inserting jaw” of the boy Alfred E. Newman is placed in a glass on a bedside table.

Our colleagues from the Georgian project Factcheck.ge applied to the editor of Mad Magazine with a request to comment on the image spreading in social networks. American edition reportedthat its authors and artists have nothing to do with the “cover”. Add that in the lower part of the original covers Mad Magazine Located The barcode is absent in the viral image.

The earliest publication with the fake cover that we managed to detect appeared, according to the TGSTAT service, on the day of October 3. Drawing Placed In his Telegram channel, the media manager and the former commissar of the Russian pro-government youth movement "Our" Christine Poddchik (in June she also Objected Pictures of the "Russophobic" stickers allegedly placed in Auschwitz). The publication is also accompanied by the image of the sculpture, and the dungeon explains that the “cover” contains a “thin reference” to ancient Greek legend: "Father saved the sons from the snakes, as a result, father and sons died." It should be noted that the author of the post does not issue MAD for a serious journalistic publication, but does not specify that this is a magazine with satirical comics (which does not cancel the fact that the number with such a cover did not come out in principle).

*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Facebook, an extremist organization; Its activities in Russia are prohibited.

Photo on the cover: Telegram

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What do our verdicts mean?

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