In recent months, three covers of foreign magazines with caricatures on the topic of conflict in Ukraine have diverged over the network. Among them are Turkish Leman, French Charlie Hebdo and Indian Ananda Vikatan. We checked the reliability of these covers.
Turkish magazine Leman
At the end of September 2022, in a number of publics on VKontakte and Telegram channels they talked about the supposedly fresh cover of the Turkish satirical publication Leman. It, as described in the publications, depicts Vladimir Zelensky in the image of a skeleton with a dumped lower jaw. In the background, a Russian rocket is visible, obviously flying into the office of the President of Ukraine. In the upper right corner there is a cloud with a text that Internet users translate this way: “It is important to be able to dump in time”, and a hashtag #Russian mobilization is written above the caricature.
The cover with Zelensky-Square can be found in relatively large channels "On the forefront"(24,000 views),"Military observer"(467 000), Colonelcassad (350,000), "Kostyan Cat - Official Channel"(88 000),"Rogandar News: news, facts, events!"(55,000), as well as in the accounts of the Russian media, including"Truth.ru","Moscow Region today","Tsargrad-TV","Sputnik near abroad"And the channel of the special correspondent of the media group" Russia Today " Alexei Stefanov. Talked about the Turkish cover on the site "YaPlakal", As well as in VKontakte in a public Pravda.ru and a number of others (examples here, here, here And here).
How noted In the official Leman Twitter account, this is a periodic publication, the issues of which usually come out once a week. For example, consider issues No. No. 1592, 1593 And 1594: They left on September 14, 21 and 28, 2022, respectively. In addition, next to the year, the issue number from the beginning of the year is also changing on the cover: 36th, 37th and 38th, respectively.
Now carefully consider the data indicated on the viral cover with Zelensky: it marks the total number 1595, September 29, 2022 and the 39th number of 2022. Firstly, it turns out that this magazine was supposed to be released the very next day after the previous one, and not as it should, in a week, while the cover does not indicate that this is an extraordinary special issue. Secondly, we could not find this caricature on Zelensky in Leman social networks-not in Twitternor in Facebook*, neither in Instagram*, Although the publication regularly publishes the work of its authors there.
Real cover of the 1595th issue Placed In Leman social networks in early October: it was noted on it that this is a release of October 5, 2022. There is really a president on the caricature, not from Ukraine, but Turkey - Recep Erdogan. The plot of the drawing is dedicated discovery The new metro line in Istanbul.
Note that sometimes the magazine really had more than one cover, but on different options there were the same number and date. You can verify this by the example of numbers 1596 (First And The second covers) and 1600 (1 And 2).
We did not manage to find almost no references to this cover outside the Russian -speaking segment of the Internet - both in the media and in social networks. The earliest publication that we managed to find using the service TGSTAT, placed On September 29, at 11:35 pm Moscow time in the Telegram channel "Ukropsky Fresh" and collected 11,000 views. They noted that the cover is an “alternative council of Zelensky from the country of NATO”. A little later a picture Loose Both the media manager and former commissar of the Russian pro -government youth movement "Our" Christina Podment. True, in her post (64,000 views) the magazine is called Lemon, so that in terms of publications there is also such a mistake.
Indian magazine Ananda Vikatan
Posts about this cover appeared in early November. The caricature allegedly published in the Indian publication shows Zelensky, with orange paint, drawing Hindu swastika with dots on top of the black Nazi. At the same time, the door to the room where the Ukrainian president sits is opened by the new Prime Minister of Great Britain Rishi Sunak. At the same time, according to online publications, Zelensky says (translation from the Tamil language): “Well, what are the Nazis? We are fans of Indian culture! ”
The cover was actively extended to Telegram, the most popular posts in the channels "Solovyov"(461,000 views),"Ostashko! Important"(112 000), Voblya (188 000), Colonelcassad (383,000), "Ne. Sahar"(211 000),"From the scene"(150 000),"Sheikh Tamir"(155,000),"Truthfulness"(268 000), Putin TG Team (98,000), "The first folk"(186 000),"Open Ukraine 37# | Open Ukraine 37#"(230,000),"Urgent news"(135,000) and"Operation Z: Warrixes of Russian Spring"(444 000). Among others, on VKontakte, they shared the cover in the communities "Solovyov Live"(15,000 views, 300 likes),"Yuri Podolyaka, Mikhail Onufrienko Reserve Channel"(16,000, 420),"The Third World War"(60 000, 460),"Newspaper | Our Donbass"(20,000, 1190) and"News of the President of Russia"(13,000, 410). In addition, about the caricature allegedly published in Ananda Vikatan, they told on the site Life.ru and in VK group this portal, as well as in Livejournal, Twitter And on Some news resources.
Like Leman, Ananda Vikatan magazine is published once a week. For example, in October 2022, according to the official website of the publication, It turned out Four numbers: 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th. They correspond to issues No. 40, 41, 42 and 43-all of them belong to the 97th that (Ananda Vikatan Started To release in 1926, so in this case the volume number is equal to the 97th year of the publication’s life). The next, 44th number was released only on November 2.
The viral cover says that this number appeared on sale on October 31, although the site does not indicate for this day. At the same time, there is no serial number on the cover, since it is noted that this is a certain special issue of the 97th volume. We tried to look for this picture in the official Facebook, Twitter And Instagram Ananda Vikatan, but it was not possible to find any special console with Zelensky and Sunak. It did not work out to do this from our colleagues from a factory project "Myth detector"And agencies"Ukrinform".
Typically, photographs of local celebrities fall on the covers of Ananda Vikatan: politicians, actors, athletes and musicians - and there were no cartoons on the covers of numbers for 2022. However, in the Vikatan group, in addition to Ananda Vikatan, Enter Seven more magazines: Aval, Pasumai, Naanayam, Sakthi, Motor Vikatan, as well as Junior Vikatan and Vikatan Plus. In the last two caricatures on the covers, you can see relatively often.
Junior Vikatan It turns out With a different frequency than Ananda Vikatan, namely twice a week. However, in this case there was no issue for October 31. In addition, the design of the viral cover with Zelensky is noticeably different from the typical Junior Vikatan design, which can be seen, for example, according to different words and fonts in the names.
But for Vikatan Plus on October 31, 2022 - a non -accident day. Exactly then I went out The first issue of this magazine, but neither on its cover nor on the covers of subsequent issues there is no Zelensky and Sunak. Moreover, the design of this publication is also different from what is presented in the viral picture.
As in the case of the supposedly Turkish caricature, the earliest record we found with a fake Indian cover appeared in Telegram, namely in the channel "Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation"(13,000 views) November 1 at 11:31 MSC.
French magazine Charlie Hebdo
In mid -November, reports again appeared on social networks that the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo allegedly turned to the topic of Ukraine. According to Internet publications, this time the cover of special release was dedicated to the rocket, which fell on November 15 in the Polish village of Pshevoduv near the border with Ukraine. On the rocket from the drawing, the Ukrainian flag is depicted, and in the background there is an inverted tractor. Two, obviously, defecate in the pants of a person, one of which swear in Polish, and the other says: “Volyn massacre 2.0”.
Among the many other channels where this cover was laid out, one can highlight "Kristina Poddchik"(51,000 views),"Tsargrad-TV"(28,000),"Ostashko! Important"(113,000),"What happened?"(110 000),"Russia now"(332 000),"Scott Ritter in Telegram"(234,000),"Putin in Telegram"(228 000),"Bullet"(181 000),"First war news"(127 000), Colonelcassad (363,000), "A woman with a scythe"(101 000),"Polish people of his"(103,000),"Legitite Live"(112 000),"Gasparyan"(74,000) and"Firing"(125 000). The posts with the French cover are also found in public in VKontakte, for example, in "Tsargrad TV channel"(22,000 views, 320 likes),"The Third World War"(90 000, 810) and Mash (286 000, 970), as well as in Twitter.
The incident that the caricature was formed, happened In the evening of November 15, 2022. Then, as a result of the fall of the rocket Died Two people. As transmitted BBC, Western politicians came to the general opinion that, most likely, in Poland, the Ukrainian air defense missile fell. The author of the drawing makes an unambiguous reference to the Volyn massacre in Poland during the Second World War, when, by estimates historians, Died Tens of thousands of Poles.
In the upper right corner of the cover of interest to us, the issue number (1583) and the release date of the magazine (November 16, 2022) were marked. However, neither we nor our colleagues from "Myth detector" And 15min.lt could not find such an image in official social networks Charlie Hebdo: not in Twitternor in Facebooknor in Instagram. There is no such picture in Archive With all the covers on the magazine website. However, this is not surprising, because earlier “verified” has already written about the fake covers of Charlie Hebdo, replicated in social networks since July: on Three Of these, Zelensky was depicted in the image of a dog, and Fourth Dedicated to turn off the electricity in Kyiv. Moreover, on all of them, next to the name of the magazine, there was also a Dick Numéro Spécial (“Special Number”), although, according to the archive, at the time of writing this text, the last special issue I went out already on June 1, 2022. And in the lower left corner there is a signature of the artist (Juin), but if you believe Archivethe last time his caricature I got it On the cover of the 1574th issue, released on September 21.
In fact, the original magazine, published on November 16, was under the number 1582, and his cover Showed on social networks in the evening of November 15, but on the cover 1583 The release marked another date, namely November 23, 2022. In addition, original carications on these covers in no way belong to Ukraine. The one that No. 1583 is devoted to hunger in poor countries, and we will tell about the topic with No. 1582 below, since it is associated with another error, widely dispersed over the network.
In the publication of the Mash Telegram channel, unlike the post of the group of the same name on VKontakte, Addedthat the cover with the Ukrainian rocket is a fake and that the real cover for November 16 (it was also attached to the post) "no worse." Some Telegram channels in general ApprovedThat the cover with the rocket was “yesterday”, and Zelensky was depicted at the “today's”. The assertion that the Ukrainian president and his “Western puppeteers” (in particular, Donald Trump) were drawn on the 1582nd issue, it was dispersed by a number of channels, including ”Journalism"(22,000 views),"Media Khabalka"(35,000),"Bai Biden"(12 000),"The madness of the Internet"(13,000) and others.
In fact, the name of a person from a caricature is written right on the cover - this Cyril Hanun, French television and radio host, actor and comedian. Hanun has repeatedly become the hero of cartoons from the Charlie Hebdo covers. So, in 2016 it depicted In the form of a mosquito, sucking children's brains. IN 2017 And 2019 He was presented in no less unpleasant images. As for the second person from the November cover, this is not Trump, but a billionaire Vincent Bollore, whose surname also indicated On the Charlie Hebdo website. Apparently, the picture is based on a recent case when the Hannah insulted a deputy who criticized Ballor. The fact is that the billionaire owns a large package of shares of the Vivendi media company, which owns the C8 channel, translating Transfer of the Hannoon. Therefore, the host was depicted in the form of a doll controlled by Ballor.
This time, the earliest publication we discovered was again in the Telegram channel-only now in Putin TG Team, where the post with the caricature was published November 16 at 11:52 Moscow time and scored 325,000 views.
Thus, all three covered covers turned out to be fakes that distributed about the same Telegram channels and publics, and the earliest posts were published in almost the same period of time, from 11:30 to 12:00 Moscow time. In addition, in each case there are any inaccuracies associated with dates and numbers on the covers. Recall that earlier “verified” wrote about fake magazines Titanic, Mad And El Juevesspreading in Telegram and social networks.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns social networks Facebook and Instagram, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
Photo on the cover: Collage "Checked" / social networks
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