At the end of March 2023, reports on the income on American television appeared on social networks: during the plot about the toilets, they showed a video with the participation of the President of Ukraine. We checked the authenticity of the video that was dispersed over the network.
The viral video lasts 1 min. 3 sec. And supposedly it is a record of the ether of a certain VBN television channel. At the beginning of the video, the presenter speaks of “tilted” toilets, and at the third second a short excerpt with Vladimir Zelensky is shown, after which the journalist begins to flood with laughter and cannot stop until the end of the record. At the same time, in the lower part of the video there is a signature in English: "Accident or not?"
“Verified” discovered two popular options for what allegedly happened on the air. One version appeared in the Telegram channel Voblya (148,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), the authors of which claim that the reports of the toilets and Zelensky simply went one after another: “The Americans laugh at the political situation in their country. The presenter, voicing two news in a row about the forced savings of Americans on the toilets and about the increase in financing of Ukraine, did not restrain laughter and allowed the phrase to add from itself: "They save on the toilets, and millions are drained to Ukraine." According to another, more popular explanation, the video with Zelensky appeared in the report on the toilets by chance, about which the channels were written "Live broadcast"(621,000 views),"Ne. Sahar"(233,000),"Bullet"(162 000),"The first folk"(160,000),"From the scene"(102 000),"Yakov Kedmi"(100,000),"Own correspondent"(98 000),"Urgent news"(94,000),"Special operation z"(92 000),"Russia 2.0"(54,000) and"TV"(34,000). They wrote about the alleged Lyap on VKontakte, where hundreds and thousands of likes were gaining posts (examples here, here, here And here), as well as on Twitter (here, here, here And here).
“Verified” looked at the viral recording - on it, contrary to publications in social networks, the presenter never mentioned Ukraine. In general, the journalist most of the time apologized to her colleagues for not having stopped laughing. Nevertheless, URA.RU edition in its social networks Published Part of the recording with Russian subtitles - at the moment when the signature “saves on the video on the video, and millions of dollars a year are drained to Ukraine”, in fact, the woman pronounces another phrase: “The company says that this can save millions of dollars a year.”
In the video behind the presenter, the logo and name are visible Moneywatch - Units of the news department of the American television and radio company CBS. On the request of MoneyWatch Toilet on YouTube, one of the first results in issuance - the video under the heading “the report cannot stop laughing during the plot about the downyate tilted down”, published On the platform on December 19, 2019, CBS Boston Channel. The video description indicates that the case occurred on the morning on the day of publication, and the presenter is called Diane King Hall. The same video Layd In Facebook*-WBZ / CBS News Boston.
In the record published three years ago, there is no passage with Zelensky, and its duration differs from the timing of the viral video by about 20 seconds. In the original plot, King Hall talks about the British startup Standardtoilet, whose representatives ApprovedWhat people spend 25% more in office toilets than necessary, because they sit not only in the toilet, but also in social networks with messengers. The toilet with a down -lean seat proposed by the company is intended to complicate a long time in the toilet, which in theory should lead to the savings of working time and money of employers. Accordingly, images of such toilets were demonstrated on the air, and it was during the story of this idea that the host began to flood with laughter.
Video with Zelensky, used in a viral video, was made during his trip to the Bakhmut area and Published In the official Telegram account of the Ukrainian president on March 22, 2023. So on the air of the American television channel could neither accidentally, nor on purpose, a video recorded after more than three years.
In addition, falsifications were not limited only to the addition of an excerpt with Zelensky. The authors of the fake record (apparently, for difficulty searching for the original) also changed the name of the TV channel WBZ on VBN. The difference in fonts used in the inscriptions of Studio (“Studio”) and the New York Stock Exchange (New York Stock Exchange) is also noticeable.
The earliest appearance of the fake video “Checked” was found in the Telegram channel “Earlier of anyone else. Well, almost. Special operation "(12,000 views), where it Published March 28, 2023 at 10:31 pm Moscow time. This channel is repeatedly distributed Inaccurate information became the “hero” of our analysis.
A similar type of fakes about the random or intentional appearance of Zelensky in the most inappropriate fragments of American news transfers, after which the presenters begin to laugh, not new. We have already denied viral messages that the speeches of the Ukrainian president accidentally showed sounds Black hole And instead of the video with Gaucing dog.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Facebook, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
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