In mid -May 2023, a photo appeared on the Web, which allegedly shows a children's textbook of the history of Ukraine, on the cover of which the president of the country is presented in the image of people of different eras. We checked whether this book is real.
The picture shows how someone holds a book with an orange cover on which it says: “The history of Ukraine for children. From primitive times to the present day. ” According to the signature popular in social networks, the four images capture “Evolution from Zelensky-Sushniyan to Zelensky in a suit” (apparently, Zelensky is shown between them in the image of a knight and astronaut). The authors of some publications are already on the basis of one cover They are outraged what is allegedly taught by Ukrainian children, and applaud compiler of illustrations, and often Add: “And you thought they were joking about“ dug up the Black Sea ”? As if not so, wait, they will bring their pedigree to some aliens. ” In social networks sometimes Emphasizethat this is "not photoshop."
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“Verified” could not find a textbook with the same cover either on the books on the sale of books, or in official Ukrainian sources. There are editions with Similar namesbut their capital illustrations are completely different from the one in the viral picture. In addition, in the lower part of the cover there is a logo and signature “Child Books” (“Children's Books”), which, most likely, should indicate the publishing house, but in open sources we could not find any information about it. It turns out that the existence of such a children's textbook confirms only one photograph, while the book on it is shown in a closed form.
It is quite difficult to establish an unambiguous primary source of the viral picture due to many different formulations of the signature. The earliest appearance of the photo, which "verified" was able to track took place In the Russian-speaking Telegram channel Gury__mood (12,000 views) May 12 at 13:05 Moscow time. Moreover, the publication Represents A repost from a certain user named Arthur Novikov (his profile is hidden). After four minutes, the picture with a similar signature published channels "Odessa public television z z"(6000) and"Shaman Rahu"(3000), which is previously more than once Facing in the analysis "tested" as distributor And Creator fake content.
In the process of searching for the source, we stumbled upon comments under one of posts on VKontakte for May 12, where the user He called it A photograph of the Ukrainian textbook with a photoshop and attached several similar photos in which a person in the same pose and the same clothing holds other books.
Using a reverse search for pictures, it was “verified” that the source of the picture is placed on many sites on creating photographs, and both paid and free (examples here, here, here, here or here). That is, any user can download the layout file, add the concept of his cover for the book there and see how this image will look on the finished product - in this case in the girl’s hands.
Thus, if this Ukrainian textbook of history with caricatures on Vladimir Zelensky existed in reality, then at least one of his real photos or mention, and not a layout that any user of the Internet that owns Photoshop could create, on the network.
Photo on the cover: social networks
Fake
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