In April 2023, Russian and international media reported a courier case, allegedly what happened to the American president and British prime minister. Мы проверили, соответствует ли такое описание ситуации действительности.

April 16 in the program "News of the week"On the Rossiya channel, presenter Dmitry Kiselev began his story about the recent first -person visit of the United States to the UK and Ireland with the following words:" In Northern Ireland, Joe Biden was received this week. On Tuesday, the British prime minister personally arrived to meet the American president at the Belfast military airfield. But Biden contemptuously dismissed Rishi Sunak, taking him either for the footman or for the porter. Вместо премьера в итоге приветствовал какого-то генерала».

Previously "RIA Novosti»With reference to the British publication, Daily Mail reported:" The US president dismissed the prime minister immediately after landing, many saw an insulting diplomatic gesture in this. " Wrote about this case Lenta.ru, "Russian newspaper","Gazeta.ru","News"And other media. The news has gained great popularity into Telegram, where channels shared it "Ax 18+» (1,7 млн просмотров на момент написания этого разбора), «Live broadcast» (636 000), «Operation Z: Warrixes of Russian Spring» (438 000), «Russia now"(314,000),"Телеграмна служба новин — Україна» (308 000), «V Z Взгляд.ру» (274 000), «Media Russia not Moscow» (232 000), «Newsach / Dv» (217 000), «Truthfulness» (206 000). Many of these posts were accompanied by a 16-second video, allegedly confirming the information distributed.

11 апреля президент США Джо Байден Arrived в Северную Ирландию по случаю 25-летия подписания Белфастского соглашенияwho put an end to the protracted ethnopolitical conflict in this region. Второй целью визита было посещение The Republic of Ireland and, in particular, the county of Meyo, from where the ancestors of Biden came from.

"Board number 1" of the US Air Force Landed At the Belfasta International Airport (and not at all at the military airfield, according to Kiselev) at about 9 pm in local time. Американского президента встречали три высокопоставленных британца. Первым из них, разумеется, был Риши Сунак — chapter The governments of the United Kingdom, part of which is Northern Ireland. The second official is the Minister of Northern Ireland Affairs in the Sunak government Christopher Кристофер Хитон-Харрис. Наконец, третьим представителем Великобритании на аэродроме became lord-lieutenant (that is, the personal representative of the British monarch) of the county is atrim Дэвид Маккоркелл. It is in a characteristic cap with a red pending that we see in that part of the video where Biden seems to push Sunaka and approaches a man in uniform. И именно его Дмитрий Киселёв назвал «каким-то генералом».

But let's take a look at how it all looks like on the video from Sky News, from which, judging by the logo of the television company, a short video was cut out on social networks. 12 апреля на YouTube-канале Sky News появился десятиминутный reportage с места событий. And its beginning generally corresponds to a virus video: Biden descends along the ladder, then it is shown how he slaps Sunaka on the arm in a friendly second, after which he moves away, and the American president welcomes McCorkell.

Однако на сайте Sky News есть и другое videoWhich in much more details presents us the moment of Biden's meeting with the British delegation. This also applies to a long descent along the ramp, and the four-second episode, during which Baiden exchanges a hands with the British Prime Minister, manages to tell him a couple of phrases and only then his gaze addresses the Lieutenant Lord. Аналогично события развиваются на видео у The Sun And The Independent.

Thus, the reason for the emergence of “scandalous” news was not a very successful installation of the video from Sky News, which was then twisted in social networks and the media. It should be noted that one of the main distributors (3.7 million views, 11,000 retweets) of a 16-second video with a wrong commentary among Western users was the pro-Russian Twitter account Spriter, который ранее уже He became «героем» разборов «Проверено». In Russian-speaking Telegram channels, the news dispersed even earlier, including 20-second video с логотипом BBC, из которого можно сделать аналогичный ложный вывод.

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