In June 2023, a video appeared on the Web, allegedly released by Al Jazeera, which talked about Ukrainians who accused the crew of the missing deep -sea apparatus of an empty waste of money. We checked the reliability of this video.
A one and a half -minute video with the Al Jazeera logo in the upper left corner began to spread on the Internet on June 22. The video reports that June 19 (actually 18th) In the Atlantic Ocean, the Titan underwater apparatus, belonging to Oceangate and heading for the sunken liner Titanic, was missing. On board It was Five people, and the cost of an eight -day expedition for three tourists was $ 250,000 for each. According to the calculations, the reserve of oxygen could only be enough until June 22 - on this day were discovered The fragments of the "titanium", the nature of which testifies About critical damage to the device. Then all his passengers were declared dead. Six days later, the coastal guard of the United States reportedthat she received a wreck raised from the bottom of the ocean and discovered the remains, presumably belonging to people on board.
The video says that numerous Ukrainian users of social networks “raised a wave of indignation” because of the “wastefulness ... of tourists and the crew of the underwater apparatus”. “Ukraine needs help while these people spend fortune on stupid entertainment”, “$ 250,000 to look at the sunken ship? It is not surprised that they were gone ”,“ While they are having fun, we are literally drowning here. I hope they will not get them ” - such comments allegedly Ukrainians are given in the alleged video Al Jazeera.
Publications with a viral video appeared in the Telegram channels “Ostashko! Important "(and twice: 111 000 And 101 000 views at the time of writing this analysis; It is clarified that the news was sent by the subscriber), "Uncle Glory"(176 000),"Army Z 18+ 🔥 News 🔥"(159,000),"Tsargrad-TV"(150 000),"Bullet"(146 000),"Sheikh Tamir"(143,000),"Alexander Semchenko"(85,000),"Tin of the day"(85,000),"Yakov Kedmi"(81 000),"DPR 🅉 info 🇷🇺"(68 000),"Nina Vatt 🇷🇺"(37,000),"Batkovich"(27,000) and"Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation"(11,000). Similar posts are found on VKontakte (examples here, here And here), Twitter (here, here, here And here) And Tiktok.
The viral video does not indicate the names or nicknames of Ukrainian users who allegedly left the cited comments with the criticism of the Titan crew. Moreover, the video does not even mention specific social networks in which the “wave of indignation” allegedly arose, and the screenshots of such comments are not shown.
Neither "verified" nor our colleagues from the agency Reuters And the fact of thekeeping projects Stopfake And Lead Stories It was not possible to find a video with such a plot on the official resources of Al Jazeera. So, a video about the complaints of Ukrainians about the dead crew of Titan is absent in English -speaking Twitter-accounts of the television channel (@ajenglish and @ajenews), as well as in Instagram*, Facebook* and on site television companies.
Reuters journalists sent a request to the press service of Al Jazeera with a request to comment on the appearance of a viral video. The television channel called the report a fake. Full answer Given On the television company: “The video distributed on social networks is supposedly from Al Jazeera, which contains materials about Ukrainians who condemn the passengers of the Titan submarine for a wasteful waste of money for an expedition, is not genuine. We want to clarify that the editors of Al Jazeera did not create this video, and we claim that the content was fabricated by a third party. ”
In addition, the channel recalled that this is not the first time that the Al Jazeera logo is used in a fabricated video. So, in November 2022 in social networks and Russian media distributed A fake video about how drunken Ukrainian football fans seemed to draw the Music of the World Cup, the antennae of Hitler and wrote a Nazi greeting nearby.
Despite the fact that the authors of Fake copied color solutions and the style of rollers from the social networks Al Jazeera, the fake can be recognized by another classic attribute. The viral video shows a font that differs from what is usually used in Al Jazeera. Differences are noticeable in many letters, including J, K, A, T, G and Y, as well as other symbols - numbers, commas and apostrophes.
The earliest publication with the roller of those that discovered "verified" was in the Telegram channel "Shaman Rahu" (4000 views)-there is a post appeared June 22, 2023 at 09:04 Moscow time. Our regular readers could already remember the name of this channel, since it is six times mentioned in the analysis as the source or a distributor of fakes, the last time - more recently in connection with the appearance Fake photo Israeli passport Elena Zelenskaya.
It is noteworthy that later in "Shaman Rahu"And other pro-Russian telegram channels distributed The fake cover of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, on which Vladimir Zelensky, hiding behind the corpse of a billionaire on the Titan, comes to the bank and asks to transfer the money of the deceased tourist in favor of Ukraine.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns social networks Instagram and Facebook, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
Photo on the cover: screenshot "Checked" / social networks
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