In 2023, on Victory Day, reports appeared about the light sabotage of the Procedure Laser Partisan: with the help of projectors, they allegedly showed pro-Russian slogans on administrative buildings in the USA and Germany. We checked the video given as evidence.
The 55-second viral video shows that on the facades of the White House in Washington, the buildings of the Reichstag in Berlin, and, as reported, the UN headquarters in New York, the inscriptions appear in the 45th-won and now "and" grandfathers won-grandchildren will win. " The primary source was the Telegram channel Mash (1.8 million subscribers), since the same video with the logo of this online publication in the upper right corner is distributed on the Internet. There is a post I went out May 9, 2023 at 09:05 Moscow time and at the time of writing this analysis, taking into account all reposts, scored 1.5 million views. “The anonymous pro-Russian laser partisans took responsibility. There is no information about the victims yet, ”the publication says.
The video was also placed by Telegram channels "Solovyov"(244,000 views),"Coachman"(148 000),"Ostashko! Important"(140 000),"Kostyan Cat - Official Channel"(114 000),"From the scene"(106 000),"Lera Kudryavtseva"(96 000), URA.RU (77 000), Rogandar News (63,000), "Gasparyan"(60 000),"Tsargrad-TV"(35,000) and"Karnaukhov"(24,000). About the "light sabotage" on their sites wrote publications Eadaily, "Arguments and facts","Public news service" Life, News.ru And "Folk news", Numerous publics on VKontakte (examples here, here, here, here And here), as well as Twitter users (here And here) and Facebook* (here, here And here).
“Verified” did not discover a single mention or evidence of the appearance of such inscriptions in the American or German media. In addition, there are no other photo or video materials on the network where this performance of the Laser Partizan was captured. It seems extremely unlikely that such a resonant promotion held in important and protected buildings in three large cities of the USA and Germany remained unnoticed by anyone (of course, except for people who allegedly shot the frames for the Mash roller). A similar situation was observed a day earlier, when on May 8, several people appeared on social networks and Russian media fake pictures and rollers With the banner of the victory hoisted over the Reichstag.
Our colleagues from the German publication Correctiv also did not find any evidence of the existence of projections in Washington, Berlin and New York. On the contrary, German journalists with the help reverse Search According to the pictures We found how they Report, original videos that were subsequently edited.
So, the video with the White House was Loaded On the site of the photobank Shutterstock back in March 2016. Comparing the same angle of shooting and vegetation on trees, as well as the synchronous movements of the American flag, we can make sure that it was these personnel that were used in the 2023 viral video. No Russian -speaking inscriptions in the source, of course,.
Original video with the facade of the Reichstag building without Russian -speaking projections also placed On the SHUTTERSTOCK website - SEVART account published it there without indicating the date of shooting. However, on the Sevartvideo.com YouTube channel there is another Record With the building of the German parliament, in which there is an excerpt we need - it is loaded to the platform in January 2016. In addition, the editors of Correctiv sent a request to the Bundestag about whether such inscriptions appeared on May 9, 2023 on the building. “We do not know about any such incident,” replied Press Secretary Sven Joran Mei.
If you believe most online publications, then the third fragment shows a projection on the facade of the UN headquarters in New York. However, in fact, the viral record is captured building The US representative offices at the UN (you can notice the UNITED States Mission to the United Nations), and headquarters organizations Located Nearby, across the road. Correctiv facts report that they have found a similar entry on the Russian YouTube channel Runews24, where the video Published March 5, 2022. There is another projection on the building: the image of a bear trying to stop the arrow on the so -called Day of Judgment.
However, the “verified” has a logical question: if the video is original, then where did the channel logo and the inscription on the blue background go? To erase them so that there are no traces left is a rather time -consuming task. In addition, it would be necessary to smear the previous projection to apply a new one on the facade.
By keywords “UN Bear”, we found that this video on March 4 last year shared in their Telegram channels Margarita Simonyan (115,000 views), Leading Solovyov Live Sergey Karnaukhov (29,000), TV channel "Tsargrad-TV"(12 000), as well as Voblya (134,000) and "Signal"(50,000). In the same month, the video could be found on Rutube, "Picabu",VKontakte" And Twitter.
At the end of October 2022, the second wave of spread of the same video began. Then they wrote about him RIA Fan And the site "Folk news", Public in VKontakte (examples here, here And here), as well as popular Telegram channels: ""Solovyov"(465,000 views),"Operation Z"(271 000), again Voblya (206 000), "Bullet"(189 000),"Urgent news"(135 000),"Ostashko! Important"(126 000),"The first patriotic"(116 000),"What is going on?"(113 000), Putin TG Team (109,000) and "Ukraine.ru"(51 000). In addition, the video was posted on the YouTube channel of the publishing house "Belarus today"And channel"Solovyov Live"On the Platform" Zen ".
As in all other cases, we were not able to find any references to such an action in the international press. There are also no other videos or photos on the network that would be a projection with a clock and a bear. Again, this seems unlikely, given the dense stream of cars in the center of New York and a demonstration of the projection for a rather long time (this is understandable by changing the color of the sky, which is explained by different time of the day).
The earliest publication with the video about the projection with the bear and the clock appeared March 4, 2022 at 20:48 in the same Mash Telegram channel and scored 1.1 million views. The post reads: “Nuclear performance on the US government building at the UN. Judgment Day, or Doomsday Clock, and the Russian Bear, or Russian Bear, who, as it were, is trying to stop the arrow and slow down the apocalypse. ” Therefore, with a high probability, it can be argued that the creators of this viral video have a source without superior projections, which was used more than a year later to create a new fake about the inscriptions for Victory Day. Previously, "verified" repeatedly caught Mash on creation And distribution inaccurate information.
Thus, on May 9, 2023, a projection with Russian slogans about victory did not appear on the buildings of the White House, the Reichstag and Representative Office of the UN - unknown people posted these inscriptions in the video editor. At the same time, in the case of the UN, a video was used to create a fake, which was a year earlier for the sake of another fake.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Facebook, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
Photo on the cover: collage "Checked" / Mash
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