On the network, the video of the EURONEWS channel was dispersed, which states that the International Olympic Committee wants to take the participation of the LGBT+ community at the Olympic Games, and their share will have to be at least 10%. We checked whether this video is true.
Video with the EURONEWS logo, at which the president of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach allegedly announces the initiative to introduce a new demand, appeared in many Telegram channels in early December 2022 ("Russia now" - 308,000 views,"The world of Mikhail Onufrienko" - 340 000,"Live broadcast" - 588 000,"Ostashko! Important" - 109 000). This news was picked up social networks, Media And various Forums. Many Russian InternetUsers They decided that by introducing a quota to LGBT sportsmen, the IOC still found a way to remove Russia from the Olympics, given the recent Russian law Against LGBT+.
In the video with the EURONEWS channel, the credits in English report that on the initiative of the President of the IOC Thomas Bach, national teams at the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games will have to consist of open representatives of the LGBT community at least 10%. Thus, countries where human rights are violated, such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia, China, India, Qatar and others, will have to make a choice.
“IOC will support LGBT+ representatives in sports. IOC President Thomas Bach made the initiative to secure LGBT+ rights in the charter of the committee. The proposal implies that 10% of the national team of each country at the Olympic and Paralympic Games of 2024 should openly belong to LGBT+. Thomas Bach believes that the 2022 World Cup in Doha emphasized the importance of this initiative. The participants and guests of the World Cup are faced with the egregious restrictions on the LGBT+community rights. And so that this scenario does not happen again at the IOC competitions, the rights of athletes LGBT+ must be enshrined in the rules. Thomas Bach emphasized that countries with restrictions on human rights and freedom to self -determination will be faced with a choice, especially Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia, China, India, Qatar and other homophobic regimes. Some experts criticized this initiative, saying that this is only an attempt to divert attention from corruption scandals around Thomas Bach and MOK. The decision can be made already in 2023 ",
- The video says.
The video is made in the style of short news clips Euronews, in which the viewer watches a video of a recent incident and reads textual explanations. When watching a video about the IOC, it seems that the press conference of Thomas Bach was devoted to the new rule on LGBT+. Nevertheless, the clip with Bach was taken from press conferences 2016, on which not a word was said about LGBT+. Subsequent shots with Bach were clearly taken from other events, where he is either in a blue tie or in red. Video protesters against the persecution of the LGBT community in Qatar was borrowed from reporting The British channel The Sun.
Search for Google in English by keywords “Thomas Bach, IC, 10%, LGBT+” did not give out a single result. On site EURONEWS We also failed to find either the video or the references to this news. In addition, the channel itself declared In a commentary to the Georgian Factics -Coaching Agency “Myths Detector” that the video is a fake and is not related to Euronews. In addition, the IOC press service also Disputed Information about the new initiative.
Similar videos, where fake news spreads on behalf of some authoritative foreign media, has recently been increasingly appearing in Runet. Earlier we have already exposed fake videos with the logo of the Qatari television channel Al jazeera and German Deutsche Welle. All three videos are made according to one principle: several video clips that are not related to each other are glued into a single video, and against their background, text credits tell about a false event.
Interestingly, several Russian pro-government media have issued their refutations about allegedly introduced quotas to LGBT sportsmen. Website VGTRK He wrote that their European correspondent did not find confirmation of this information. TV channel "Tsargrad"Asked the question of who needs to launch a similar fake, and came to the conclusion-the LGBT community itself:“ The author of the toss can be just the world sodomitic lobby, which was very concerned about the position of Qatar powers, where the World Cup is now held, regarding the rejection of propaganda of sexual perversions. This is a trial ball clearly abandoned by perverts to see what the reaction in the world will be. This information sabotage is designed not only for Russia, but, given the English credits, and the whole world. Under the guise of a fake, a "topic" is slipped to be discussed and get used to it. "
Thus, the news of the new requirements for the Olympic team is not true, and the video has nothing to do with the Euronews channel. Both the channel itself and the IOC refuted this information. It is difficult to define the author of this video. But judging by the fact that it is widespread precisely in Russian-speaking Telegram channels and VKontakte and is almost never found on English-speaking sites or social networks, the target audience of this fake is the Russian public.
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