In this text, we checked the reliability of three covers of satirical magazines: French Charlie Hebdo and Spanish El Jueves - with caricatures on Vladimir Zelensky, Andrzej Dudu and Ukrainians at the World Cup in Qatar. All of them dispersed quite widely on the network.
El Jueves
At the end of November 2022, the alleged cover of the Spanish magazine El Jueves was enclosed in social networks and Telegram channels. How Approved In numerous publications, the caricature depicts the wet president of Poland Andrzej Duda, who holds a passerby and says to him: “Emmanuel, I do not want a war with Russia! I don't want a war with Russia! " The person replies to this: “How much can you tell you? I'm not Emmanuel! "
The plot of this drawing is based on the drawing of the Russian duet of prankers - Vova and Lexus (they can even be seen in the background of the caricature). They are known for calling celebrities, politicians and public figures, while impocating other people. So, November 22 Vovan and Lexus They saidWhat they could get through to Duda on behalf of the French President Emmanuel Macron on the day of the fall of a rocket in the Polish village of Pshevodov near the border with Ukraine. Record of the conversation Published on the RUTUBE channel of prankers. Apparently, the author of the cover referred to this phrase, sounding in the video: “Emmanuel, do you think I want to fight with Russia? No. Believe me, I don't want that. I do not want war with Russia, and I am extremely careful, believe me. I am extremely careful. " Later the office of the Polish president Confirmedthat Duda was talking with an unknown who introduced himself as a macron. The statement noted that the president guessed about the draw "on the unusual manner of conducting the interlocutor conversation" and completed the call.
The viral cover allegedly from the Spaniards appeared in the Telegram channels of themselves Vova and Lexus (89,000 views, and this is the second post, since the first was Remote), TV presenters Vladimir Solovyov (402 000) and Ruslan Ostashko (119,000), programs "News"(48,000), as well as"Scott Ritter in Telegram"(204 000),"Bullet"(188 000),"Pool N3"(128 000),"Ramzan Kadyrov Ponomar war"(117 000),"Sexton"(98 000),"Ukraine.ru"(90 000),"Russian format"(71 000),"Denacification UA"(66 000),"News.rf"(55,000),"Rogandar News"(49,000),"Kornilov"(37,000),"Nose"(23,000) and"Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation"(12 000). Publications with the cover are located on VKontakte (for example, in verified publics "Prankers Vovan and Lexus","TV channel 360 and Onufrienko" And "News") And Twitter.
On the viral cover directly under the name of the magazine, the issue number (2375) and the phrase Año XLV (“45th year [of the magazine]”) are indicated, that is, it is supposedly a magazine in 2022. We checked card file covers on the official website of El Jueves, but did not find such a caricature of dudu there. On the contrary, the site at number 2375 shows a completely different cover, dedicated Electricity saving. We also checked the official accounts of the magazine in Twitter, Facebook* And Instagram* - there the viral cover was not placed either.
The earliest publication of all that we know appeared in the Russian-speaking Telegram channel called “Putin in Telegram” (930,000 subscribers)-there is the fake cover El Jueves laid out November 24, 2022 at 12:18 pm Moscow time. It is noteworthy that, according to the TGSTAT service, this post was removed within a minute. Probably during this time they still managed to copy it, since in subsequent The publications of other channels preserved the original typo, namely, the gap in front of the comma. Note that the Putin in Telegram channel already He became The alleged primary source of another fabric cover El Jueves.
Charlie Hebdo
The very next day, November 25, 2022, network users distributed the alleged cover of the famous French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. According to Internet publications, his title caricature was devoted to the event allegedly what happened at the 2022 World Cup with the participation of Ukrainians. “Three drunken idiots ruined posters with Labe in Doha, drew Hitler's antennae symbols and wrote“ Zig Hale ”,” - Give Numerous posts. It is this plot that is shown in the background of the drawing (only two Ukrainian fans are depicted). In the foreground, apparently, two Qatari police officers With the Arab-Ukrainian phrasebook, and one of them says: "This is something in Ukrainian." Author of one of the publications Indicatesthat "Ukraine has earned a reinforced concrete reputation of modern Nazis in the world."
The news about this cover “Special release on the adventure of Ukrainian Nazis” appeared in Telegram channels “Special operation z"(93,000 views), Putin TG Team (85,000), "What is going on?"(85 000), Russia Live (70,000), "Ukraine.ru"(55,000),"7 days news"(22,000),"Brekotin"(21,000),"Lev Scharan"(16,000) and others, as well as in VKontakte (examples here, here And here) and twitter (here, here And here).
Let's start with the fact that the incident with the MACOT of the World Cup-2022 we are already Disassembled And they came to the conclusion that this plot is a fake. In authoritative sources, we could not find any evidence of acts of vandalism in Qatar, supposedly committed by fans from Ukraine. The video cited on the network as evidence was issued as a report by the local television channel Al Jazeera, although the editorial office of this media denies involvement in the creation of the video. In addition, it turned out that the record was compiled from materials from other authors, including published in 2019 and 2013.
The question arises: could the editors and cartoonist Charlie Hebdo believe a fake video and create a cover based on it?
We checked the verified Charlie Hebdo accounts in Twitter, Facebook And Instagram, and also card file The covers on the official website of the French publication, but on any of these resources could not find a caricature with Ukrainians in Qatar. If you carefully consider the viral cover, you can notice several details, thanks to which it will be easy to determine its authenticity. Firstly, in the upper left corner it is indicated that this is a magazine at number 1584 for November 24, 2022. At the same time, the site has not been presented at all for November 24 (Thursday), but there is a release for November 23 (No. 1583). Since Charlie Hebdo is a weekly on Wednesdays, the next magazine was released only on November 30, just under the number No. 1584, only the caricature on its cover is in no way connected with the World Cup 2022. There are no Ukrainians on the same covers that are actually devoted to Qatar.
Secondly, under the name of the magazine there is a dick that this is a special number (Numéro Spécial). However, according to Archive covers, last time a release with a similar emblem I went out On June 1, 2022, and it was at number 101 (1H). Note that the site really There is Special issue No. 2h for November-December, the cover of which is dedicated to the 2022 World Cup, but it is designed differently, and there are neither Ukrainians nor the chatting of the championship in the caricature.
Thirdly, on the right on the caricature with Ukrainian fans there is a signature of the artist (Juin). But if you believe the official sitethe last time his work appeared on the cover for September 21, 2022 in the room 1574.
Fourthly, a barcode with a digital designation is presented in the viral image, which begins as follows: 17158. In reality, all standard Charlie Hebdo magazines (at least over the past couple) have written 14057 over the barcode, and 17148 in special issues.
And again Charlie Hebdo
The new cover of this magazine on the topic of Ukraine began to walk on the Internet at the end of December 2022. This time, Vladimir Zelensky was depicted at the title caricature dedicated to Catholic Christmas, running away with the gifts of the magi. "Do not whine. We need more!" Magi in shock, gifts to Jesus are stolen ” - It is said In one of the publications.
This picture also dispersed on VKontakte (for example, here, here, here And here), Twitter (here, here And here) and Telegram in channels "Russia now"(310,000 views),"Bullet"(172 000),"Mriya"(161 000), Voblya (145,000), "Sheikh Tamir"(128 000),"Ukraine.ru"(123,000),"Polish people of his"(72 000) and Swiss Vatnik (11,000). In addition, the news about the cover with Zelensky, stealing Christmas, appeared In social networks of the channel NTVas well as in Telegram channels of the TV presenter Ruslan Ostashko, radio host Armen Gasparyan and deputy of the State Duma Sergey Mironov.
Since this cover is also absent on the site and in the main social networks of the publication (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram), we will analyze it according to the algorithm presented above. So, in the upper left corner is the issue number (1588) and the date (December 22, 2022, that is, Thursday). Since Charlie Hebdo comes out weekly on Wednesdays, at the moment the latest issues, The indicated On the website of the publication, - No. 1587 for December 21 and No. 1588 For December 28. On the cover of the official number 1588, neither Zelensky, nor Jesus, nor magi are depicted. In addition, a magazine with a viral cover is also awarded as a special number (Numéro Spécial). However, as we wrote above, the last time is a release with such a dick I went out June 1, 2022, and special issue for November-December has Another design. Among other things, the number on the barcode at the covers with Zelensky again differs from those that should have Charlie Hebdo.
It is difficult to determine the exact source of both Charlie Hebdo covers, however, according to our data, the earliest publications with them were in the Russian-speaking Telegram channel “Earlier of all. Well, almost. Special operation ". So, the cover with Ukrainians at the World Cup 2022 was placed there November 25 At 11:28 Moscow time (12,000 views), and the caricature of Zelensky - December 22 At 11:55 Moscow time (12,000). Recall that this channel - Frequent guest our analysis, and earlier in it already distributed fake magazine covers, including Charlie Hebdo.
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Photo on the cover: Collage "Checked" / social networks
Fake
- Is it true that the Ukrainians in Qatar reconciled the MAM-2022 antennae of Hitler?
- Is it true that the Foreign Minister of Ukraine recognized Kyiv’s involvement in the undermining of the Crimean bridge?
- Is it true that foreign magazines released these covers dedicated to Zelensky and Ukraine?
- Is it true that foreign satirical magazines released these covers dedicated to the words of the Pope about Chechens and Buryats?
- Is it true that the German magazine Titanic released the cover with Zelensky in the form of a black hole absorbing money and weapons?
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