In May 2023, the network was filled with a commercial message, which was allegedly shown in the center of New York. On the video there were phrases that Putin is a military leader, and Zelensky is the Duke of the World (Peace Duke), which sounds like Russian curse in English. We checked the reliability of the video.
On May 19, 2023, Russian Telegram channels and state media said that the advertising that allegedly appeared at the Times Square media facade mocked users of social networks. The viral video, which is dispersed in Runet, is a gluing of three videos removed from different angles. The first fragment (removed to the left of the building) shows that the phrase “Putin is War Lord” is shown on the screen (“Putin is a military leader” or, as some authors translate, “Putin is the Lord of the War”), on the second (filmed vertically under the screen) shows how the first inscription replaces the phrase “Zelensky IS PEACE DUKE” (“Zelensky is the Duke of the World”), and at the end (removed to the right of the building) the phrase “The Constitutionalist Party of Iran supports Ukraine” is shown. However, the object of ridicule was only the nickname of the Ukrainian president, since phonetically the phrase of Peace Duke sounds like a Russian insult (even in some publications Attach Record pronunciation from the translator Google). At the same time, they write somewhere that I ordered advertising calculated on Russian-speaking people "Some citizen" or "Some kind of joker", And in other sources by the customer indicated The mentioned Iranian opposition party.
Telegram about the video reported channels "Russia now"(387,000 views at the time of writing this text),"Putin in Telegram"(247,000),"Observer"(238,000),"Sheikh Tamir"(188 000), Voblya (175,000), "Uncle Glory"(167 000),"Own correspondent"(131 000), Zergulio (125,000), "Ostashko! Important"(120 000),"Urgent news"(108 000),"Gossip"(102 000),"Yakov Kedmi"(100,000),"Russia 2.0"(86 000),"Release Kraken!"(84,000),"Boiling water"(62 000),"True Russia"(61 000), Rogandar News (53,000), "Karnaukhov"(27,000) and"Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation"(12 000). Among the media on their websites about advertising, they told the TV channel "Tsargrad" RIA Fan (It is mentioned that the authenticity of the video is “officially confirmed”), the newspaper “Sight"As well as news resources Podlyaka.ru, Newsland, "Politicus","ZOV Zaporozhye"And others. Among other platforms, where similar messages appeared:" VKontakte "(examples here, here, here, here And here), Twitter (here, here And here), Tiktok (here, here And here), Livejournal (here And here), YouTube, "Classmates" And "Zen".
The diverged video is indeed shown Times Square-the screen interests us located On the facade hotel New York Marriott Marquis. At the end of 2022, Runet reported that it was allegedly used to demonstrate another video about Zelensky: the president of Ukraine was compared on it with a black hole. "Checked" Disassembled That case found out that the video was forged. However, if the last time the viral video was removed from one angle, then in the case of Pis Duke, we are dealing with a cut of three records.
At the same time, you can ask the new rather obvious questions for the new video, for example: why did no authoritative foreign media write about this resonant incident? At least “checked” such news notes did not find. Why did the distribution of the video start with the Russian -language segment of the Internet, and in English, even in social networks of publications about this advertisement, there is almost almost? Why do all three videos initially spread as a single video? So, we could not find any profiles in social networks, where different users posted either their photos or viral advertising, or the same three videos separately. It seems extremely unlikely consideringthat Times Square is one of the most crowded and popular places among tourists in New York.
At the request of “verified” our colleagues from the project Les Observateurs The France 24 television channel turned to the Silvercast Media commentary, which answers For outdoor advertising at the New York Marriott Marquis media facade. The representative of the company, who wished to remain an unknown (correspondence is at the disposal of the editorial office), called the viral video a unambiguous fake created using computer graphics, since in reality such a video on their screen was never demonstrated.
In addition, the fake gives out several other minor details, which the authors of the fake, apparently, were forgotten. Firstly, on the screen on the right of the inscription Zelensky is Peace Duke, advertisements of the cartoon "Super Mario in the Cinema" are visible. Under the logo of the project, part of the word April, or rather, dates on April 5, since the wide rental of the picture in the United States is noticeable It has begun It is on that day. At the same time, the video was encouraged at the end of May, that is, at that time a month and a half passed since the premiere of the cartoon.
Secondly, right above the central part of the screen is an arcuate protrusion with the Marriott Marquis logo-the bottom of this structure has The mirror surface, that is, it reflects a fragment of rollers shown at the media facade. However, if you carefully look at the viral record, then in the reflection on the ledge you can notice Colors that are absent at that moment on the screen.
At the request of “The Super Mario Bros Movie Times Square”, “Checked” found several videos on which the same media -released from different angles at different times of the day. These videos (1, 2, 3, 4) were published a few months ago by different users. However, all the videos had one common feature: when the “Super Mario Brothers in Cinema” logo was shown on the right side of the media facade, a short cartoon trailer was shown on the main part of the screen. We compared the reflections on the ledge that are visible on the viral video and on the video with the cartoon trailer - the color schemes and some silhouettes completely coincided.
Due to many formulations of signatures to the video, it is quite difficult to unambiguously determine the primary source of fake. The earliest post that has discovered "verified", appeared In the Telegram channel "Evening Omarov" (58,000 views) on May 19, 2023 at 14:54 Moscow time. According to our data, from the same channel It began The spread of another fake video with Zelensky, allegedly shot in Milan. However, the last time the video stood a wrapper with the name of the channel, which this time is absent, so there is a chance that there are earlier publications.
Thus, the Times Square never showed advertising with the phrase “Zelensky Is Peace Duke”, which is confirmed by the commentary of the media facade and a visual analysis of the video itself. Unknown in a digital way, the image on top of the original rollers, on one of which showed the cartoon trailer, was laid out.
Photo on the cover: screenshot "Checked" / social networks
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