Is it true that the option “without Ukrainians” appeared in the Polish hotels?

In March 2023, information diverged on the network that in Poland it became possible to book a hotel room, among the guests of which there would be no Ukrainians guaranteed. We checked whether such xenophobic practice really appeared in the country.

As reported on March 12, the TV channel "Tsargrad", Who are in Poland, Ukrainian refugees accuse local citizens" of the next round of Ukrainophobia. " If you believe the TV channel, in the Internet reservation services of hotels in Poland, the item “Without Ukrainians” appeared among the filters. This was supposedly a reflection of the Poles's reluctance to live in institutions where Ukrainian refugees stopped.

Earlier, the same information spread through social networks, and there it was accompanied screenshot from the alleged hotel reservation service. Telegram wrote about this, in particular, channels "Ne. Sahar"(582,000 views at the time of writing of the analysis),"The world of Mikhail Onufrienko"(321 000),"The first folk"(166 000),"Sheikh Tamir"(146 000),"Uncle Glory", (126 000)," "Ostashko! Important"(122 000),"Summarians of Yuri Podolyaki"(121 000),"Belarusian security officer"(119 000),"Cat Kostyan"(106 000),"Cartridge"(102 000),"World News"(102 000), Putin TG Team (84,000), "What is going on?"(67 000)"Sledgehammer 18+"(60 000) and"Sagittarius is young"(56 000).

By data The Office of the UN Supreme Commissioner for Refugees on March 20, 2023, 8.1 million people were registered in Europe who left Ukraine after the start of a full -scale Russian invasion. More than 1.5 million of them received a temporary shelter in neighboring Poland, on the border from which the country has eight ground checkpoints. Some of these people Placed In Polish hotels, and part of the costs of their maintenance was taken by local governments and hotels themselves. From March 1, 2023, many refugees whose stay in the centers of collective accommodation exceeded 120 days, in the new law should cover a certain share of the corresponding costs.

In the left side of the screenshot dispersed, we see information about four hotel -type enterprises:

These are not dry technical descriptions - each text is advertising and, judging by the search for Google, is unique. All objects are described in this way on One And volume the same site - hotel aggregator Nocleg24h.pl. In the section "Ads»On this resource you can see the same interface with options as on a viral screenshot:

However, there is one difference. If in the popular picture between Parking filters (“Parking”) and PLAC Zabaw Dla Dzieci (“Playground”) the same BEZ UKRAIńCów option is located, then the Piaskownica filter (“Sandbox”) on the site in this place). This location of the filters is logical if only because it corresponds to the alphabetical order, which can not be said about the wedge that is clearly not at the address of the BEZ Ukraineńców option. With a high probability, we can say that this item was added to the screenshot through a graphic editor or by editing the code of the page of the original site saved to the computer (we are already about such methods They told). In the rest of the site there is no such option either. She is not on the pages others Popular Polish aggregators hotels.

Neither in the Polish nor in the Ukrainian media space the question of a clearly discriminatory filter on the hotel aggregator website was raised, and it would be difficult to avoid a scandal if such a point in the menu would have been avoided. But there were many publications on the Russian -language Internet, in the same place, apparently, the first of them appeared. The earliest mention of a strange filter included with a screenshot we found thanks to the TGSTAT service in the Telegram channel "Waiting", Where the corresponding post was posted on March 8 at 18:13 Moscow time. All of the above suggests that we are dealing with a fake picture created on the basis of an interface of a real site.

In conclusion, we add that just two days after the screenshot the screenshot in Russia itself a scandal broke on a similar topic - it is significant how local media lit it and commented on Newsmakers in comparison with the reaction of Ukrainian media to fabricated news from Poland. March 10 Telegram channel "Reloverkin»I found that in the application of the popular Aviasales service, hotels abroad can be filtered according to the approximate number of Russian -speaking guests. Your outrage about this expressed State Duma deputies Vitaly Milonov and Sultan Khamzaev (the latter even threatened to contact the prosecutor's office). In response, the press service of Aviasales said that such an option is added for the convenience of travelers who are faced with a language barrier while resting abroad. Representatives of the company noted that filters that set the search results in the user language have long existed in the Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Thai, Korean, Chinese, Japanese and, in fact, Russian versions of the service. Some resources They even presented news about Polish hotels and Aviasales together, although only one of the two facts eventually turned out to be real.

Photo on the cover: social networks

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