Is it true that the American television channel accidentally showed Zelensky’s speech instead of a funny video with a dog?

The other day, the news was held on Telegram: supposedly TV presenters in the United States announced the video with the words “The impatient dog is buzzing and barking at the owner,” but the president of Ukraine appeared on the screen instead of the dog. We checked the authenticity of the viral recording.

The video that was dispersed on social networks on February 13, 2023 lasts 22 seconds and is a recording of the news gear on the KCCI 8 News channel, or rather, the plot of the “Ohio puppy, which attracts public attention”. In the Telegram channel of the TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov (328,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) The video is accompanied by the following signature: “On American television, the presenters wanted to show a ridiculous video and announced it as follows:“ The impatient dog is buzzing and barking at the owner. ” But, Like a black hole, something went wrong and instead of a puppy showed a video about Zelensky, who again asks for something. ” Also, the TV presenter shared the record with the alleged Bloop Ruslan Ostashko (115,000), radio host Armen Gasparyan (48,000), as well as channels "Ne. Sahar"(229 000),"Observer"(203 000), Voblya (145,000), "War History of Weapons"(118 000),"Worse and you can't say"(74,000),"TV"(50,000). Authors of the post in the channel "Uncle Glory"(113,000) noted that" the image of a whining puppy is tightly correlating with the figure of the leader of the Kyiv regime. " “Now Mr. Zelensky is almost officially - an American pet. And now they don’t even hide it, ”the channels commented on the video"Scott Ritter in Telegram"(105,000),"Summarians of Yuri Podolyaki"(94,000) and"Yakov Kedmi"(78 000).

About how “the American television channel subtly ridiculed Zelensky” is told on the sites of television channels “Tsargrad" And "REN - TV", As well as on the portal"Ukraine.ru", Where it was added:" The situation was amused by the channel officers who laughed right in the frame, adding that they could not show the story about the puppy. " On VKontakte at the time of writing this analysis Published More than a hundred posts with a viral "incident", some Of which thousands of views and hundreds of likes were scored. Distant Video and on Twitter.

Video: social networks

In many publications about the video with the dog and Vladimir Zelensky, a case is mentioned that a few months ago allegedly occurred on another American television channel-WDIV-TV (Local 4). In October 2022, a record was dispersed over the network, on which on the air of that channel it was also accidentally turned on Zelensky’s speech instead of the sounds of a black hole, which is why the TV presenters began to laugh. "Checked" Disassembled These messages: The recording of the program turned out to be mounted, and in the original the presenters laughed at the funny sounds on the record provided by NASA.

Now regarding the new viral video. The words of gratitude that Zelensky were demonstrated there Said February 8, 2023, at the very beginning of its performances In front of both chambers of the UK parliament during a recent visit to London. At the same time, at the end of the video distributed in social networks and the media of the video, the announcement of the next plot with a frame from the cartoon "Lego film: Batman", Which came out back in 2017.

Record of the speech of Vladimir Zelensky. Video: The Telegraph

Video called "Leaders laugh at the signaling dog" appeared On the official website of the KCCI 8 News channel February 20, 2017. Published on the same day announcement We found this plot in the verified Twitter account of the TV channel. The air was about a dog named Diamond, which Shooted In the city of Groma City, Ohio. By words Eyewitnesses, the animal barked and pressed the car’s beep in an attempt to attract the attention of the owner who had gone out on business. The reaction of the presenters who could not restrain laughter became viral, like the video with the dog. For example, a record of the air on August 2, 2017 laid out On the Funny Avenue YouTube channel, where she collected more than 4 million views.

Video: Funny Avenue

Thus, on the air of the KCCI 8 News channel, for 2017, they could not by mistake showing the recording of Zelensky’s speech, with which he made in 2023. Six years ago, Zelensky was not even the president of Ukraine - he Won In the elections for the post of head of state only in 2019.

It is problematic to determine the exact source of a fake video due to many formulations with different keywords. The earliest publication “verified” was found in the Telegram channel ”Sheikh Tamir", Where a post, which scored more than 150,000 views, was posted on February 13, 2023 at 13:58 Moscow time. This channel was found in our analysis at least 12 times: they shared there false covers satirical magazines, fake graffiti, mounted video recording plot on Ukrainian television, edited photo And screenshots, A Also others false messages.

Apparently, the authors of the new fake video with Zelensky, allegedly shown instead of a dog, returned to the old narrative, which was distributed in the summer and autumn of 2022. Then on the network appeared Three fake covers of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, on which Zelensky was depicted in the form of a dog.

Photo on the cover: Screenshot "Checked" / social networks

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