In June 2023, the covers of the Handelsblatt newspaper and the satirical magazine El Jueves, which ridiculed the counter -offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, were dispersed over the network. We decided to check if it is real caricatures.
German newspaper Handelsblatt
On June 22, the cover of allegedly the Handelsblatt newspaper appeared on the Internet. The artist portrayed the German Leopard tank crashing into the wall. Above the picture it is written: "This is not a counterattack, this is a bloody crash test." Obviously, we are talking about Leopard tanks, which were covered during the Ukrainian counterattack - about this, in particular, He said Russian President Vladimir Putin, and after his statement Russian state media They began to assertthat "Germany is shocked by losses and is looking for ways to retreat." This allegedly new cover was reported among other Telegram channels "Dmitry Vasilet"(214,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Own correspondent"(108 000),"Ostashko! Important"(105,000) and"What happened?"(107 000)
In the upper left corner of the cover it is indicated that this is No. 119 for 23/24/25 of June 2023 (that is, the Friday number of June 23, which applies to the weekend). The newspaper under such a number really released on June 23, in electronic form it can be found in Online archive Handelsblatt. However, the cover of this issue of the publication looks different.
Handelsblatt rooms with full -format covers on which the illustration occupies the entire page, Usually come out on Fridays. But it was on June 23 that the German edition was published in the usual form for the rest of the days.
The technical errors that the authors made have also been preserved previous The fake cover of Handelsblatt, which has spread on the Internet in April. Two barcodes are depicted on the left. The first refers to the publication as a whole, it is always the same. In the second, a specific issue is encoded. In this case No. 119, the numbers 50025 are indicated, in fake - 50024. The numbers in the distributed image are taken from another Friday number - No. 114 of June 16, 2023.
The primary source of Fake was the Telegram channel “Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation ", where fast With the cover appeared on June 22 at 11:25 Moscow time (11,000 views). It is this Telegram channel in recent months that most often becomes the primary source of the spread of fake covers. Of the 22 similar images, disassembled “checked” in 2023, in 17 cases, the channel was the first to write about this “before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation ".
Spanish magazine El Jueves
On July 3, another viral image appeared on the topic of Ukrainian counterattack, this time attributed to the Spanish satirical magazine El Jueves. At the caricature, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and Swedish activist Greta Tunberg speak against the backdrop of mountains of bloodied bodies in the form of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, from which vapors are up to the up. Tunberg turns to Zelensky: "How dare you destroy the ozone layer with its" counterattack "?" This image began to be distributed shortly after the activist’s trip to Kyiv in late June, during which she, in particular, She said about the environmental disaster caused Breakthrough Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. Publications with allegedly cover El Jueves appeared in many popular Telegram channels, for example, “Putin in Telegram"(168,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Uncle Glory in Telegram"(61 000) and"From the scene"(59,000).
In the viral image, the issue number is indicated - 2389. Such a number in archive of covers There is no magazine. The last of outdoor At the time of the spread of fake cover in Telegram - No. 2388, and it is dedicated to various types of dependence, including smoking, gluttony, pinsia, dependence on drugs and the Internet.
This time, the authors of the fake cover escaped the technical errors made by them when creating previous images supposedly from El Jueves. IN November 2022 (cover about the call of Russian prankers to the Polish president), in April 2023 (Easter cover about Zelensky) and in May 2023 (cover about the counterattack and worms), artists forgot to change the numbers above the barcode, which should coincide with the magazine number. This time the numbers coincide.
But there is another inaccuracy. WITH March 2023 The magazine has changed the slogan. Prior to this, above the name of the publication was written "The magazine that is published on Wednesdays." Now there is another inscription that can be translated as "a magazine for fun for the whole month." In any case, the numbers for March, May, June and July were released with such a slogan, and the April number was a special issue of corruption. And on the fake cover of the supposedly new magazine issue is an old slogan.
The earliest mention of the fake cover we managed to find in the Telegram channel "Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation"(10,000 views), where the post with this image was published on July 3 at 13:20 Moscow time. It is noteworthy that in the last two cases, the names of publications were distorted in this channel - Handelsblad instead of Handelsblatt and Eljueves instead of El Jueves. It is possible that this is done intentionally to make it difficult to find the search for the primary source of Fake.
Photo on the cover: collage "Checked"
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