Is it true that the Russian intelligence agencies focused on a fake about a fake about a Ukrainian and an explosion on the Crimean bridge?

A couple of days after the explosion on the Kerch bridge in the Ukrainian media and blogs, the story about the document found at the scene of the explosion, which the Russian special services allegedly issue one of the performers of the terrorist attack, Ukrainian Semyon Haydenko, was widely dispersed. We checked whether this is really so.

In Ukrainian media and blogosphere, the story diverged extremely widely, it was published even by fairly noticeable media, such as "Ukrainian truth" or "Censor.net"Striving against fakes "Media detector"as well as dozens of popular bloggers - for example, in the Sergey Naumovich account fast About this at the moment has more than 800 reposts.

It is noteworthy that the Russian media and bloggers is unknown, which is strange for the Kremlin misinformation, as the distributors call it. She never appeared in Russian official sources, there is no her in the Russian media, even in the most marginal. In the FSB report on a terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge among its performers and organizers, citizens of Ukraine Zurkalo Mikhail Vladimirovich, Kovach Denis Olegovich, Solomo Roman Ivanovich, malice Vladimir Vasilievich, Andreichenko Sergey Vladimirovich, citizens of Georgia Netosaridze Sandro, Broker named Levan, and a citizen of Armenia Terchyanyan Arthur, and several Russians. Member Semyon Haydenko was not mentioned among them.

In fact, the picture with the passport depicts the famous American comedian and pranker Sam Hyde. In 2015, after a massacre in Rosberg (USA), the American television channel CNN mistakenly Turned on Sam image in a shooting report. The story became a viral, it was picked up by the 4chan imageboard users, and since then after all massacres (so -called jokes) or terrorist attacks, comic pictures appeared on the Internet, allegedly testifying to Sam Hyd's involvement in events. This has become a popular and widely known meme, which at one time told Even New York Times. In 2017, Sam Hyda's erroneous accusation even appeared in the Russian 24 report about jokes at the music festival in Las Vegas, after which about meme told, for example, lenta.ru.

After the outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine, comic posts with photographs of Sam Hyde, participating in hostilities, have appeared more than once. For example, he was a defendant in the hoax about the “ghost of Kyiv”, a city legend about a Ukrainian pilot who allegedly knocked down six Russian aircraft on the first day of the war. Already on February 25, they appeared on the Web and widely dispersed Images A pilot with the face of Sam Haid, and under the name Samuel Hyde.

Or, for example, a passport addressed to Semyon Haydenko after explosions of the North Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea - memes about this appeared Another September 29th. It was to create this meme that the Ukrainian passport from "Wikipedia", On which the photo of Haid was most likely taken from store T -shirts with prints. Moreover, the authors of the fake did not even try to convince anyone of his truth - on the pattern of the passport, the most primitive way (the signs of the installation are clearly visible) were replaced only by the photo, surname, name and date of birth - all the other parameters, including even the number of the passport 0000000, remained untouched, and the Hyde in the photo is depicted with a naked torso.

It is this picture with a passport on October 9 I took it User of the Twitter social network Will Finchman for his comic meme about the explosion of the Kerch bridge - he only imposed traces of fire on it. Moreover, the Finchman clearly knew about the previous versions of the meme, because in his post he mistakenly calls the owner of the passport Samuel Haydenko, as in the version about the “ghost of Kyiv”, while the name Semen was written in the picture. A fragment from this post (which is noticeable by red stroke) for several hours began to diverge through Ukrainian publics, but already with the statement about the supposedly Kremlin disinformation. One of his first Published Ukrainian journalist Andrei Luchkov. The meme got out of control-the joke began to spread as serious information, while completely false.

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