At the end of June 2023, the reports were widely dispersed that the Swedish deputy came up with the initiative to nominate an immigrant from Iraq, who burned the holy book of Muslims at the mosque in Stockholm, for the award of the Nobel Committee. We checked whether this news is real.
June 28, 2023, in first Muslim holiday Kurban-Bayram, 37-year-old Iraqi refugee Salvan Momika He broke and burned A copy of the Qur'an in the square at the main mosque of Stockholm. The police guarded the action, although initially refused to authorize it for threats to public order, but the court insisted on the legality of the conduct - in his opinion, the risks in the field of security were insufficient to restrict freedom of speech. Commenting on this decision, Sweden Prime Minister Ulf Kristerson declaredthat considers the resonant event "legal, but inappropriate."
The next day, publications appeared in social networks and the media that Momik was allegedly nominated to the Nobel Prize of the world, and the initiator of the nomination was Swedish deputy Andre Ovsthard. “This is a recognition for all Iraq residents who continue to fight for freedom” - such a quote of politics accompanies many posts. According to the TGSTAT service, at the time of writing this analysis, such publications in Telegram totally gained more than 10 million views. The news also appeared in the channels "Ax 18+"(2 million views), Colonelcassad (334,000), "Media Russia not Moscow"(291 000),"Observer"(256 000),"Putin in Telegram"(229 000),"Uncle Glory"(180 000), Voblya (177 000), "Sheikh Tamir"(139,000) and"What happened?"(123,000).
Authorities of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Morocco, Iraq and other countries of the Islamic world condemned Promotion in Stockholm. In protest on June 29, Iraqis stormed Embassy of Sweden in Baghdad. Many of the above Telegram channels published a video from there, again mentioning the alleged initiative of the Swedish politician. Among other channels received in the same way, “Live broadcast"(806,000 views),"Russia now"(358 000),"Truthfulness"(237,000),"Bullet"(158 000) and"Yakov Kedmi"(88 000). The authors of the publication Readovka (831 000) believe that the “last straw” for the protesting Iraqis became the initiative of the Ovstard. They talked about the alleged nomination of Irakts to the Nobel Prize of the World and in the release of the Channel One (at the mark 18:32): “In Sweden, it was as if specially continued to add oil into the fire - today there was a proposal to put forward the very vandal that a provocation, to the Nobel Prize.” In addition, the news can be found on sites "Politicus"And TV channel"Crimea 24", As well as in"VKontakte" And Twitter.
Deputy Andre Ovsthard really exists (his full name is Freddy Andre Ovsthard), but this is not a Swedish, but the Norwegian politician - he has been working in the local parliament since 2017. Finding any statements about the nomination of the Momi to the Nobel Prize in official and/or authoritative sources “verified”. Moreover, on June 29, on the day of the news in the media and Telegram channels, Ovsthard told In Facebook*that went on vacation.
The earliest publication on the initiative of Ovstard, along with its viral quote, was “verified” in the Telegram channel “But my Yandex Kid”-there is a post appeared June 29, 2023 at 11:33 Moscow time and scored 16,000 views. In the description of this channel Emphashes The invented nature of all the records: “A parody, satire on political reality. Only proven fakes. "
When the joke began to disperse, the author ridiculed some channels and publications where it was given out for the real news. For example, the post of channel "ax 18+" he commented on So: “O - efficiency”, and a fragment of the air of “Channel One” - So: "Pour oil into the fire." When there were messages about the assault on the Embassy of Sweden in Iraq, the creator of the channel "But my Yandex Kid" wrote: "I hope this is not because of me." A little later, he shared a fragment of the publication of Readovka that the last straw for the Iraqis could be the proposal of the supposedly Swedish deputy, and Commented These are the words: "Oh, that's it."
Probably, the real news of 2019 was taken as the basis for the satirical publication. Then oatgard with two colleagues I put forward At the Nobel Prize of the World, the Swedish eco -activist Greta Tunberg. Norwegian deputy Explained The decision that the girl united thousands of other schoolchildren in an effort to stop the global climate change, and her initiatives make a great contribution to achieving peace in the whole world. On his Twitter Tunberg Name The nomination with honor and thanked for it. Moreover, even four years ago, some media (for example, Sputnik) The Swedish deputy was incorrectly called Ovstagard.
"Checked" Disassembled There are already more than a dozen cases when satirical news from “But my Yandex Kid” was given for real ones. It is noteworthy that recently we analyzed another fiction of this channel related to burning - supposedly singer Charlot I complainedthat after the destruction of his Russian passport, Yerevan airport cannot leave due to lack of documents.
Thus, the owners of the largest Russian-speaking Telegram channels and editors of Russian television programs once again did not find the primary source of satirical news, which did not prevent them from telling them as a real audience.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Facebook, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
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