In mid-November, publications about the German driver appeared on social networks and Telegram channels, which wrote on the bus that the president of Ukraine is a black hole. The proof was the video of the local television channel. We checked the reliability of this news and video.
November 17, 2022 Telegram channel "Solovyov"(301,000 views at the time of writing this text) shared the recording of the channel"Yakemenko"(323,000) of the following content:" A bus with the inscription "Zelensky - Black hole" rode Berlin. This bus, apparently, became a kind of local attraction and even accidentally got into a report by the German media. True, the driver was fined for this prank. But nothing, a small fee for the opportunity to have your own position! It's funny that in German "black hole"-"Schwartz Loch" (actually "Schwarzes Loch-approx. Ed.). Now I want to know what the inscription "Zelensky-black hole" in all languages of the world will look. In the 22-second viral video, a woman is captured, in German a commentary to the television channel. In the middle of the video (at 0:13 mark) in the background you can notice a passing white bus, on which it is written in German-this is a common one. hole "(Selenskyj ist ein schwarzes Loch).
Similar publications are posted in other Telegram channels, among which Voblya (180,000 views), "Russia now"(320,000),"Scott Ritter in Telegram"(226,000),"News"(20,000),"Anonymous from the USA"(15,000) and others. On VKontakte, this plot was told in public"Solovyov Live"(15,000 views),"Donbass today"(11,000),"The Armed Forces of Novorossia (BCN)"(16,000),"Donetsk VKontakte"(16,000),"PE Primorye"(7,000) and others. Layd Video and on the channel of Vladimir Solovyov on Rutube.
At the same time, sometimes the German -speaking video is distributed with such Russian subtitles: “Yesterday I could not normally take a shower, because my husband came home from work earlier and merged all the hot water. I can’t afford to warm the water again. Today I want to come home first in order to have time to take a shower, and here you are with your questions. ” For example, a video with such a translation was also dispersed in Telegram channels "Militia reports"(21,000 views),"Political garbage man"(19,000) and"News of the Kherson region"(5,000), on VKontakte (examples here, here And here), as well as in Twitter.
To begin with, the woman in the video speaks at all about what is written in Russian subtitles. In fact, it was about nuclear energy and renewable energy sources, and not about problems with hot water. “Since the production of electricity at nuclear power plants is not so easy to vary, the more it is in the energy system, the more the renewable energy sources are replaced. To the extent that this does not cause trouble. Everyone who advocates extending the operation of nuclear power plants in power systems without flexibility, at the same time stand for ... (the record breaks off. - Approx. Ed.), The video says.
In the lower right corner of the video there is a logo of the Telegram channel "Nos", where on November 18 for the first time appeared A video with Russian -language subtitles, collecting 25,000 views. There is also a detail that the driver’s fine is the inscription about Vladimir Zelensky and the black hole was € 200. According to the description, the "nose" channel Positions its content as a satire about the current political agenda, and in one of the posts with the video in another channel notedthat "the translation subtitles are made for humor." However, in most publications of public and channels, where they placed a video with subtitles, there is no droppings about humor and satire, so users who do not speak German could be misleading.
And what about the bus and its driver?
The authors do not call the name of the allegedly fined driver in any of the materials we found, there are also no other details of the incident: for example, the date of shooting a report or a fine, the name of the street, district, television channel or transport company. However, along with the video, the Storiz screenshot allegedly from Instagram*-acure of the German newspaper ND is distributed. We checked website publications, as well as three of his accounts in social networks (in Twitter, Facebook*, Instagram) and could not find traces of the fact that the newspaper posted such a publication. Moreover, we did not find a mention of a bus with such an inscription and a fine for it in any English -language or German -speaking media. Any evidence of eyewitnesses and other photos and videos with a bus, in addition to the viral video, also could not be found.
Since we were not able to consider the logos on the side of the microphone to determine the name of the channel, we decided to find out the name of the woman by reverse search for pictures. She turned out to be a German lawyer and deputy Nina Scheer, Representative Fractions of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SDPG) in the Bundestag on the protection of climate and energy policy. We checked the official Scheer accounts in three social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) and on her Facebook found a post for October 17, 2022, which It begins With these words: “I set out in detail the WELT publication of the SDPG faction in the Bundestag regarding the discussion on the continuation of the operation of nuclear power plants. In general, the main priority should be more efficient use of renewable energy sources. There is no reason to extend the life of the Emlan NPP.
Shener also attached a screenshot from the same report to this publication, which allegedly accidentally got a bus with an inscription about the Ukrainian president, as well as a link to a site where you can look Her interview. As you can see, on Microphone The name of the German television channel Welt is worth. Apparently, in the version that became a viral in Runet, the name of the channel was erased to make it difficult to search for the original source.
In the video published on the Welt website on October 17, the moment with a passing bus begins at 3:17 mark, but there is no inscription about a black hole on it. Moreover, in the place where the words about Zelensky supposedly should be, nothing is written at all. The logo was also replaced Company, engaged in passenger transportation on Berlin, since the original on the bus in red and black letters and numbers is written Busmobil24, and in the viral video of the logo it is a pink rectangle on which something is written in white letters (we could not consider in more detail).
We did not establish the exact source of the fake video, but the earliest publications that we found were from the community “NEWS Drinking”: November 17 at 15:50 Moscow time in Telegram And at 16:20 V "VKontakte". The posts specify that an anonymous subscriber sent information about the bus and a fine.
The editors of “verified” have repeatedly analyzed fabricated videos and images as part of the narrative that in Europe and the USA Vladimir Zelensky is allegedly compared with a black hole. So, in Runet, the reports were already distributed that the American television channel by chance showed Zelensky speech instead of recording sounds of a black hole, a German satirical magazine released On this subject, the cover, in Poland appeared graffiti with the money of Zelensky, and Serbian students Offered To name a black hole in honor of the Ukrainian president, but all these plots turned out to be fakes.
Thus, there are no references to any authoritative foreign media about the bus with the desired inscription, as well as about the driver fined for it. And the only evidence of this story is the edited video, the original of which was released a month before the first publications appeared on the network about the inscription on the bus, and the screenshot of the Storiz of the German newspaper, the reliability of which could not be confirmed.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns social networks Facebook and Instagram, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
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