Recently, the cover of the satirical magazine Eulenspiegel with a caricature that ridicuates the Olympic Games - 2024, where the artist will be confident, will take place “tug of Canata” between representatives of LGBT and Ukrainians. We checked the authenticity of the image.
January 30, 2023 in the Telegram channel of the radio host Armen Gasparyan (more than 80,000 views at the time of writing this text) appeared Such a text, allegedly sent by one of the subscribers: “The German eulenspiegel remembered here that the Olympics was coming soon. "A new sport. Turning the Olympiad. Sports outside the policy? Lies." It is vanged that there will be only one competition at the Olympics - who is more important: farmers or tridvaras. Here is a difficult choice. There are two chairs ... ”In the viral picture, it is painted as the Olympic rings pull in different directions two groups of people, which is why the symbol of the Olympics begins to crack. According to the author, the stereotypical representatives of the LGBT community are captured on top, and from below, residents of Ukraine, which is understandable in national symbolism.
Publications about this cover appeared in the channels "Zl⭕y Pruf"(130,000 views),"Countess ☢ ruined face pond"(27,000),"TV"(22,000),"Slovensko News-front.info"(18,000),"Brother for his brother"(11,000),"Avdeevka.ru"(8300),"Yakemenko"(8000),"Vzvod"(6800)," "Conflict 🔥 z"(4900) and"Tasking News"(3800), on VKontakte (examples here, here, here And here), Twitter (here, here And here), as well as on some websites, among which "YaPlakal" And other.
The viral cover indicates that this is the third number for 2023 (03/2023). However, “verified” this image did not find in the social networks Eulenspiegel (Twitter, Facebook*, Instagram*), neither in Gallery covers on the official site publications. It is absent in section Special designs. Fresh issues of the magazine Come out Once a month. The first number for 2023 I went out At the end of December 2022, the second issue appeared On sale January 25, 2023. Accordingly, the third magazine was published February 22. The cover of the third issue published on the site is not devoted to the Olympic Games, but the construction of motorways.
In addition, the third number is indicated on the viral cover as 03/2023, although previously such numbering was used only on the site, and on the official covers it went without zero at the beginning of the number. Accordingly, the first issue indicates 1/2023, on the second - 2/2023, and on the official third - 3/2023.
“Verified” sent a request to the editorial office of the magazine with a request to comment on the cover with the caricature to representatives of the LGBT community and Ukrainians. According to the editor Andreas Corista, answering on February 8, the viral picture is forged: “This cover is a fake. We have not yet published our number 03/2023. ” We wrote to the artist Thomas Kulenbek, whose name was signed by a caricature with Olympic rings, he also denied his involvement in the drawing: “I did not draw this cover. Although it has my signature on it, which is strange. ”
We found the earliest publication with a fake cover in the Telegram channel "Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation"(14,000 views), where the post containing her post was published on January 30, 2023 at 12:11 Moscow time. This channel can rightly be called the starting platform for the spread of fake covers, because He is already repeatedly He became their primary source.
The authors of such propaganda fakes often affect the theme of LGBT. For example, "verified" recently disassembled a falsified reportage Polish TV channel on Poland plans to create a military unit from representatives of sexual minorities. In December 2022, another fake appeared, associated with both LGBT and the Olympiad: then fabricated was dispersed over the network video EURONEWS television channel about the plans of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to introduce a quota at least 10% for athletes from the LGBT community.
Probably, the reason for creating the fake cover of Eulenspiegel was the discussions around the admission of athletes from Russia and Belarus for the 2024 summer Olympic Games in Paris. January 26 Reuters agency reportedthat the IOC seeks to invite Russian and Belarusian athletes as neutral participants to the competitions. The Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine spoke out against such a decision Vadim Gutsightas well as the president of the country Vladimir Zelensky. February 21 Representatives of 35 countries released The joint statement, in which the IOC called for the not to allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to the competition even under the neutral flag, until the organization develops a clear and transparent scheme for obtaining the appropriate status, especially in conditions when many athletes from the two countries are directly funded by governments and/or are associated with militarized structures.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns social networks Facebook and Instagram, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
Photo on the cover: social networks
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