A photograph of social advertising, which allegedly appeared in the Moscow metro car, spread on the network. The poster warns passengers about the dangers of using VPN services. We checked whether these images are true.
A photo of the poster appeared in several Telegram channels (Sota, UNIAN, "Ax 18+"), as well as in Media, social networks And on forums. According to the signature to the photograph, the poster was allegedly photographed in the carriage of the Zamoskvoretsky metro line. The poster draws an analogy between the VPN services and pickpockets, stealing valuable things from passengers. TJournal He writes that "in addition to printed materials, passengers are informed by screens in train wagons, as well as broadcasting audio unions in lobby and on escalator slopes."
For some dataFor several months of military operations in Ukraine, more than 138,000 websites were blocked for Russian users. Tighten Internet censorship led to surge The popularity of applications for bypassing Internet blocks-VPN services. In response to this popularity, Russian federal Media They began to notify Russians about the dangers of using VPN applications. According to publications, these applications have the opportunity to “steal” personal data of users and transfer them to third parties. Information portal of the Government of St. Petersburg "Petersburg Diary" Writes: "VPN services promise users anonymity, but in fact they do not provide it, but only drain personal data in the darkn." The poster noticed in the Moscow metro also illustrates the danger of becoming a victim of theft of personal information.
A few days after the appearance of publications with the posters, the pro -government anonymous resource “War with Fakes”, repeatedly caught us on misinformation, wrote refutation, calling the photos a fake from Ukrainian Telegram channels. Another Russian Providious Information project "Noodles", Referring to the analysis Lenta.ru, also called the photos false: “The news is a fake. The photo was changed using the image editor. The old police department was taken as the basis in the Moscow Metro, in which they warned about cases of theft, and also called for being vigilant. ”
Indeed, in 2018, the press service of the Moscow Metro Internal Affairs Directorate told On the campaign to inform citizens about criminal schemes of pickpockets and robbers in transport: “On all rolling stocks, platforms and subsequently on escalator arches will be placed stickers who will warn passengers about the most common types of thefts and robberies.” Poster About the pickpockets, which was mentioned by the Internal Affairs Directorate, is almost identical to the poster about the VPN services. The drawing that was used for the information poster of the Internal Affairs Directorate and the poster about the VPN services can be found in Online portfolio Illustrator Boris Zabolotsky.
Nevertheless, the similarity of the two posters only demonstrates that for both images the same drawing of Boris Zabolotsky was taken as a basis. This does not exclude the possibility that both options-about pickpockets and VPN services-at some point were glued in the subway cars.
In various Telegram channels and groups of social networks, we managed to find six different photos of the poster about VPN services ("OPL Moscow","Intelligent Lomonosovsky" Sota). Judging by the context and signatures under the photos, the pictures were taken in different cars and on different metro branches. Digital analysis Six photos did not show obvious signs of editing or photo collage.
So, we cannot claim whether it was the official initiative of the metro administration or someone’s amateur performances. The basis was taken about the drawing about pickpockets, created for the Internal Affairs Directorate in 2018. At the same time, most likely, posters about the danger of VPN services really existed and at some point were pasted in the Moscow metro, as evidenced by real photographs from the wagons.
Image on the cover: Telegram
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